Blue carbon stocks and exchanges along the California coast [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2021 Salt marshes and seagrass meadows can sequester and store high quantities of organic carbon (OC) in their sediments relative to other marine and terrestrial habitats.
M. A. Ward +12 more
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Geographic variation in plant community structure of salt marshes: species, functional and phylogenetic perspectives. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In general, community similarity is thought to decay with distance; however, this view may be complicated by the relative roles of different ecological processes at different geographical scales, and by the compositional perspective (e.g.
Hongyu Guo +10 more
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South West Atlantic salt marshes as model systems for community and ecosystem ecology
Ecología Austral, 2022 Just as some species are used as model systems in organismal biology (e.g., physiology, genetics), many ecosystems are commonly used as model systems in ecology. Salt marshes, for instance, are great models to perform manipulative field experiments, and
Pedro Daleo +7 more
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Current Biology, 2014 Salt marshes are unique ecosystems that are brimming with diversity, and provide crucial shelter to coastal communities.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Tidal wetlands are highly dynamic ecosystems that are susceptible to changes in sea level and flooding from storm surges. Among them, salt marshes play a key role in coastal protection as they contribute to wave attenuation through their regulating ...
Dorothea Bunzel +4 more
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Biodiversity in salt marshes: from the patrimonial value to the ecosystem functioning. The case study of the Mont Saint-Michel bay. [PDF]
, 2003 Until 1979, European salt marshes were known only through the inventories of fauna and especially of flora. On such criteria, the salt marshes of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay (France) were regarded as most significant of the French coasts.
Bouchard, Virginie +4 more
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Human activities accelerated the degradation of saline seepweed red beaches by amplifying top‐down and bottom‐up forces [PDF]
, 2018 Salt marshes dominated by saline seepweed (Suaeda heteroptera) provide important ecosystem services such as sequestering carbon (blue carbon), maintaining healthy fisheries, and protecting shorelines. These salt marshes also constitute stunning red beach
Chen, Luzhen +10 more
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Mapping Lower Saxony’s salt marshes using temporal metrics of multi-sensor satellite data
International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, 2022 Salt marshes act as an important natural buffer in terms of coastal protection in the light of the rising sea level. Due to weather events like extreme storms the extent of salt marshes changes. Hence, it is of great importance to regularly monitor these
Kim-Jana Stückemann, Björn Waske
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Importance of quantifying the full-depth carbon reservoir of Jamaica Bay salt Marshes, New York
City and Environment Interactions, 2021 Constraining uncertainty in the global carbon cycle requires valid assessment of both surface and stored carbon in marine and coastal ecosystems (Blue Carbon) as well as terrestrial carbon (forests, peatlands, and soils) [Pendleton et al., 2012 ...
Grant Pace +6 more
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Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years. [PDF]
, 2019 Climate change is driving the tropicalization of temperate ecosystems by shifting the range edges of numerous species poleward. Over the past few decades, mangroves have rapidly displaced salt marshes near multiple poleward mangrove range limits ...
Cavanaugh, Kyle C +7 more
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