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Functional structure of plant communities along salinity gradients in Iranian salt marshes [PDF]

Plant-Environment Interactions, 2022
Salt marshes are unique habitats between sea or saline lakes and land that need to be conserved from the effects of global change. Understanding the variation in functional structure of plant community along environmental gradients is critical to predict
Zeinab Matinzadeh, Jesús López‐Angulo, Adrián Escudero, Sara Palacio, Mehdi Abedi, Hossein Akhani   +5 more
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Comparing the Development and Viability of Horseshoe Crab Eggs Laid in Beach and Salt Marsh Habitats [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
The horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, has recently been found to spawn regularly in salt marshes, despite the long‐held assumption that salt marsh sediments are not conducive for embryonic development.
Daniel A. Sasson, Christopher C. Chabot, Jo‐Marie E. Kasinak, Jennifer H. Mattei, Elizabeth U. Scott, Fletcher K. Hall, Michael R. Kendrick   +6 more
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A phenology-based vegetation index classification (PVC) algorithm for coastal salt marshes using Landsat 8 images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2022
Coastal salt marshes, as a globally significant intertidal ecosystem, are highly productive but extremely fragile and unstable. Mapping coastal salt marshes accurately is the basis of assessing global climate change, biological invasion, and coastal ...
Jing Zeng, Yonghua Sun, Peirun Cao, Huiyuan Wang   +3 more
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Salt Marshes as Groundwater Buffers for Development: A Survey of South Carolina Salt Marsh Basins

Frontiers in Water, 2021
Salt marshes serve as zones of intense groundwater mixing and reaction between freshwater uplands and estuaries. This raises the question of whether the impacts of upland development on nutrient and carbon species can be transmitted through salt marshes ...
Alicia M. Wilson, Meghan Shanahan, Erik M. Smith   +2 more
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Assessing Shoreline Changes in Fringing Salt Marshes from Satellite Remote Sensing Data

Remote Sensing, 2023
Salt marshes are highly important wetlands; however, external pressures are causing their widespread deterioration and loss. Continuous monitoring of their extent is paramount for the preservation and recovery of deteriorated and threatened salt marshes.
Inês J. Castro, João M. Dias, Carina L. Lopes   +2 more
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Facilitating Salt Marsh Restoration: The Importance of Event-Based Bed Level Dynamics and Seasonal Trends in Bed Level Change

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Intertidal salt marshes provide a range of valuable ecosystem services which typically increase with marsh width. Understanding the drivers for salt marsh expansion versus retreat is thus key to managers.
Pim W. J. M. Willemsen, Pim W. J. M. Willemsen, Erik M. Horstman, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Martin J. Baptist, Martin J. Baptist, Marinka E. B. van Puijenbroek, Bas W. Borsje   +7 more
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Marsh Collapse Does Not Require Sea Level Rise [PDF]

Oceanography, 2013
Salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing nurseries for fish species and shelter and food for endangered birds. Salt marshes also mitigate the impacts of hurricanes and tsunamis, and sequester large volumes of carbon in ...
Sergio Fagherazzi, Giuilio Mariotti, Patricia L. Wiberg, Karen J. McGlathery   +3 more
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Megafauna in Salt Marshes

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Megafauna shape ecosystems globally through trophic interactions, ecology of fear, and ecosystem engineering. Highly productive salt marshes at the interface of terrestrial and marine systems have the potential to support megafauna species, but a recent ...
Leo C. Gaskins, Avery B. Paxton, Brian R. Silliman   +2 more
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Large methyl halide emissions from south Texas salt marshes [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2014
Coastal salt marshes are natural sources of methyl chloride (CH3Cl) and methyl bromide (CH3Br) to the atmosphere, but measured emission rates vary widely by geography. Here we report large methyl halide fluxes from subtropical salt marshes of south Texas.
R. C. Rhew, M. E. Whelan, D.-H. Min
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Change in the community structure and organic carbon content of meio- and macrobenthos between tidal flat and salt marsh areas colonized by Spartina alterniflora in the Bahía Blanca estuary (SW Atlantic)

Scientia Marina, 2023
Salt marshes are regarded as among the most productive coastal ecosystems, important “blue carbon” sinks and a support for benthic communities with large abundances, whose structure may be strongly influenced by salt marsh vegetation.
Leandro J. Reyna Gandini, Flavia A. Funk, Paula D. Pratolongo   +2 more
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