Structure and Function of Restored and Natural Salt Marshes

Natural and restored salt marshes in Long Island Sound were studied in 2021–2022 for S. alterniflora genetics, biomass, stem morphology, and faunal community ...

Work with the dominant marsh grass Spartina alterniflora in. Louisiana (USA) found that the genetic diversity of naturally colonized restored ...

Data -- Structure and function of restored and natural salt ... - Dryad

Salt marshes have ecological and economic value, but shoreline development, the increasing rate of sea-level rise, and other human impacts have caused ...

Structure and Function of Restored and Natural Salt Marshes

Marsh platform invertebrates differed between the restored and natural sites, with natural marsh edge habitats having 9 times higher density of ...

Structure and Function of Restored and Natural Salt Marshes

Structure and Function of Restored and Natural Salt Marshes: Implications for Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptive Potential ... Abstract. Salt marshes have ...

Ecological structure and function in a restored versus natural salt ...

and Penaeus aztecus) were more 13C-enriched in the natural marsh, indicating a greater use of macrophyte derived organic matter relative to ...

Salt Marsh Restoration - Association to Preserve Cape Cod

Salt marshes act as natural purifiers by filtering pollutants and sediment and by absorbing excess nutrients from streams, rivers, and surface runoff before ...

Salt marshes - Coastal Wiki

Attenuating the impact of extreme storms on coastal protection structures is a very important function of saltmarshes. ... A 100 m wide marsh in ...

Maine's Salt Marshes: Their Functions, Values, and Restoration

In the natural world, habitat edges are rich, special places. Here in the Gulf of Maine, our coastal estuaries are especially important edges – places where the ...

Ecological structure and function in a restored versus natural salt ...

The restored marsh was successful in providing habitat for economically and ecologically important macrofauna taxa; supporting similar or greater density, ...

Structure and Function of Restored and Natural Salt Marshes - OUCI

AbstractSalt marshes have ecological and economic value, but shoreline development, the increasing rate of sea-level rise, and other human impacts have ...

Salt marsh construction as a nature-based solution in an estuarine ...

Constructed salt marshes as a Nature-Based Solution for coastal defense offer additional benefits over conventional engineering, but project realization is ...

The Key to Successfully Conserving Our Salt Marshes | CMBC

What Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances Do Salt Marshes Face? ... Salt marshes occupy prime coastal real estate sharing the shoreline with ...

Recovering ecosystem functions in a restored salt marsh by ...

Natural and managed ecosystems provide a variety of ecological, economic, and cultural benefits; yet most have been altered by human ...

Restoring Ecological Function to a Submerged Salt Marsh

... function after sediment addition has received little attention. To determine if sediment subsidized salt marshes are functionally equivalent to natural marshes ...

Salt Marshes - Oceans, Coasts & Seashores (U.S. National Park ...

The National Park Service is restoring the natural wetlands function of the salt marsh by filling the ditches with sand and replanting with ...

Functional Equivalency of Restored and Natural Salt Marshes

A functional equivalency index mixed both structural and functional measures, and an often-cited model of ecosystem degradation and restoration depicted a ...

Restoring the links between land and sea - oceanbites

In addition to supporting local fisheries, salt marshes provide important ecosystem services, which are benefits we enjoy for free, including ...

Ecological structure and function in a restored versus natural salt ...

Reduced marsh flooding frequency was associated with a reduction in macrofaunal biomass and decapod trophic levels. The restored marsh edge occurred at lower ...

A global meta-analysis on the drivers of salt marsh planting success ...

Individual studies also identify numerous environmental factors that affect the ecological effects of salt marsh restoration, such as surface ...