Salt-Marshes
Mobile dunes and eroding salt marshes
... Succession in a mid-upper salt marsh exclosure in the S6nke-Nissen-Koog salt marshes on the mainland, Festuca rubra shows a strong dominance for 3 years.. In the fifth year EIymus s[r] ...
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Creek dynamics determine pond subsurface geochemical heterogeneity in East Anglian (UK) salt marshes
... these salt marshes, is supplied by cliff erosion (McCave, ...the salt marsh is somewhat more complicated; carbon from organic matter is supplied by a combination of terrestrial inputs, in situ growth, ...
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Geographic variation in plant community structure of salt marshes: species, functional and phylogenetic perspectives.
... of salt marshes on the southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts in the United States, from species, functional and phylogenetic ...fied salt marsh plant species in three different ways: as individual ...
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The biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and value of restored salt marshes in the Eden Estuary, Scotland
... and salt marshes, work with natural processes offering a more economically sustainable approach to defending the coast with little to no maintenance ...
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Expansion and Management Implications of Invasive Alien Spartina alterniflora in Yancheng Salt Marshes, China
... Improved understanding of the spatial dynamics of invasive plant species is critical for effective land management and control of future invasion. The Yancheng National Nature Reserve (YNNR), an internationally important ...
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Soil Development in Created Salt Marshes; Its Spatial Patterns and Implication for Subsurface Water Flow
... created salt marshes from the North Carolina coast (Figure 1) that varied in age but had similar physiography (Table ...natural marshes comprised our sample of reference ...natural marshes, we ...
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Assessment of wave run up reduction by salt marshes
... The vegetation on the salt marshes is important for the amount of wave damping. Vegetation reduces the significant wave height by an additional 15% and 50% compared to a foreshore without vegetation. The ...
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Cliff erosion of salt marshes : experimental evaluation of the effect of vegetation characteristics and sediment properties of erodibility
... My utmost gratitude goes to ALLAH, the Almighty, without whose mercy and blessing, my research work would not have been possible. This document is the final report of my MSc thesis, which was focused on the cliff erosion ...
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Associations of Tabanidae (Diptera) larvae with plant species in salt marshes, Carteret County, North Carolina
... In our sampling areas in North Carolina, larval tabanidae were distributed throughout the lower salt marshes occurring in highest densities in areas below mean high tides and dominated b[r] ...
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Population structure of the ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa in salt marshes in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada
... A final possibility is that mussels are no longer recruiting to the marsh and have not been recruiting to the lowest marsh levels where they would normally be found in high abundances in healthy marshes for some ...
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Fluxes of water, sediments, and biogeochemical compounds in salt marshes
... globally, salt marshes are highly productive [net ecosystem production (NEP) = 1,585 g C m − 2 year − 1 ], rivaling tropical rainforests, due to abundant solar radiation, water, and nutrients provided by ...
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The influence of vegetation on turbulence and flow velocities in European salt marshes
... Coastal salt-marshes have an important influence on the sediment dynamics of upper intertidal areas (French and Reed, ...2000). Salt-marshes also afford a protection against storms by damping ...
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Plathelminth abundance in North Sea salt marshes: environmental instability causes high diversity
... Looking for a general theory of diversity to explain the plathelminth diversity pattern in the supralittoral salt marshes and the littoral zone of the North Sea, [r] ...
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Factors influencing the distributional patterns of Juncus roemerianus in two North Carolina salt marshes
... Based on water table measurements, Juncus is no more exposed to dessication than Spartina at my study sites due to regular tidal flushing at the Southport site and a str[r] ...
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Structure of the invertebrate fauna in salt marshes of the Wadden Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein influenced by sheep-grazing
... Production per generation of Psammotettix putoni in the Puccinellia maritima-zone of Friedrichskoog (FK) and S6nke-Nissen-Koog (SNK) 1990-1991.. sampling method) are ranked[r] ...
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the colonization of the salt marshes of Friesland and Groniingen: the possibility of a transhumant prelude.
... ABSTRACT: An inventory of anthropogenic sand-drift phenom ena from the late prehistoric and early historic period on the Drenthe plateau (Northern Netherlands) casted doubt [r] ...
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Climate Regulation as a Service from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems
... Sea-level rise is a particular threat to coastal ecosystems, and responses of ECEs will depend on vegetation, sediment bud gets, and local hydrodynamics. Evidence suggests that low- lying coastal habitats are degrading ...
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Recovery of Oregon Coast Coho Salmon (Onchorhynchus kitsutch) through Restoration of Freshwater Habitats
... in salt marshes and woody forest trees are dominant in mangrove ecosystem located in tropical areas (Craft 2001, Chmura ...2000). Salt marshes exhibit unique plant zonation based on hydrology ...
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Soil Buoyancy as a Potential Indicator of Hurricane Susceptibility in Louisiana Marshes
... natural salt marshes in southwest Louisiana and determined if the dredged material marsh eventually transformed into the type of natural marsh found in the reference ...on salt marsh and the creation ...
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Ziegler_unc_0153D_19253.pdf
... Hotspots for primary productivity, such as areas of upwelling or high plant biomass (e.g. mangroves, salt marshes, rainforests), are generally expected to export energy into adjacent systems (Polis et al. ...
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