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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"coastal salt marshes"”.
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Effects of Elevation and Nutrient Availability On the Primary Production of Spartina Alterniflora and the Stability of Southeastern Coastal Salt Marshes Relative to Sea Level Rise
… macrophyte in Southeastern and Gulf Coast salt marshes of the United States the smooth cord grass Spartina alteriflora Loisel is responsible for maintaining the elevation of its environment, in equilibrium with sea level rise (SLR), through mineral (sediment) and biogenic accumulation. …
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Diazotroph Assemblages of Salt Marsh Plants Growing Along An Environmental Gradient: Assemblage Composition and Responses to Environmental Conditions
<p>Many <em>Spartina alterniflora</em> dominated coastal salt marshes of the southeastern US are nitrogen-limited despite being among the most productive ecosystems known. Nitrogen fixation (diazotrophy) by the nitrogen-fixing microorganisms in these ecosystems is one of the primary sources of …
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Effects of shoreline development and freshwater discharge on nekton assemblage and trophic structure in a northern Gulf of Mexico estuary
<p>Coastal salt marshes support a diversity of nekton and facilitate critical ecosystem functions but are threatened by shoreline development and climate change. Therefore, coastal ecosystem managers have begun incentivizing the use of living shorelines (LS), erosion control structures …
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Phenotypic plasticity and population differentiation in Suaeda maritima on a salt marsh
… that in the UK occurs exclusively in coastal salt marshes. The main aim of this study has been to examine the phenotypic variations within and between its populations in the heterogeneous microenvironments of a salt marsh. Detailed field characterizations of the growth, seed production …
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Mycorrhizal Colonization of Native Salt Marsh Plants On Mississippi's Gulf Coast and the Effects of Commercial Mycorrhizal Inoculants On Nursery-Grown Plants
<p>Salt marshes are important economically and ecologically to the Gulf Coast and other coasts worldwide. Due to human activities, many coastal salt marshes have been degraded or destroyed. Restoration efforts, through the replacement or addition of naturally occurring salt marsh plants, are taking …
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Identifying Erosional Trends of Upper Galveston Bay Salt Marshes from 2004-2018 High Resolution Imagery: A GIS and Remote Sensing Analysis
… modelling. In a place like Galveston Bay, Texas, coastal salt marshes and residential or urban centers coexisting near one another are commonplace, so tracking the health of the marsh based on anthropogenic actions, both conservational and detrimental, is key to preserving them. In turn, the …
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Locality of Topographic Ground Truth Data for Salt Marsh Lidar DEM Elevation Bias Mitigation Using Machine Learning
… elevation models (DEMs) are crucial for modeling coastal salt marsh systems, simulating the coastal dynamics of sea level rise (SLR), and predicting storm surge inundation depth and duration. Improvements in lidar acquisition technology and data processing over the last decade have led to …
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Mycorrhizal Colonization of Native Salt Marsh Plants on Mississippi's Gulf Coast and the Effects of Commercial Mycorrhizal Inoculants on Nursery-Grown Plants
<p>Salt marshes are important economically and ecologically to the Gulf Coast and other coasts worldwide. Due to human activities, many coastal salt marshes have been degraded or destroyed. Restoration efforts, through the replacement or addition of naturally occurring salt marsh plants, are taking …
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Germination responses of endemic land-races of Saudi-Arabian cereal species
… as high as that of many true halophytes of coastal salt marshes. None of these species showed significant dormancy, presumably as a result of previous domestication, and none showed critical temperature requirement for germination found in many wild species of adverse environments. It is …
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Capturing dynamics of marine inorganic carbon fluxes from diurnal to decadal timescales
… the open ocean and the large variability in the coastal ocean provide obstacles to accurately quantify storage and transport of inorganic carbon within marine ecosystems and between marine and other earth systems. Thus far, the open ocean has been the only true net sink of anthropogenic carbon …
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Carbon Sequestration in Tidal Salt Marshes and Mangrove Ecosystems
… in global warming and climate change. Although coastal wetlands release the greenhouse gasses carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, these ecosystems maintain high performance in offsetting significant amounts of atmospheric carbon. This paper investigated the carbon sequestration capacity …
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The evolution of freeze tolerance in a historically tropical snail
… range. The snail Melampus bidentatus occurs in coastal salt marshes in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. I have used sequence data from one mitochondrial (CO1) and two nuclear markers (histone H3 and a mitochondrial carrier protein, MCP) to identify three cryptic species within Melampus …
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Capturing dynamics of inorganic carbon fluxes from diurnal to decadal timescales
… the open ocean and the large variability in the coastal ocean provide obstacles to accurately quantify storage and transport of inorganic carbon within marine ecosystems and between marine and other earth systems. Thus far, the open ocean has been the only true net sink of anthropogenic carbon …
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Examining UAV-based LiDAR, Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Precision Photogrammetry Approaches for Tidal Salt Marsh Environments
Tidal salt marshes are one of the most productive and valuable ecosystems on Earth, providing multiple ecosystem services such as blue carbon trapping and coastal flood mitigation. However, this ecosystem is under serious threat due to human activities and rising sea levels. The purpose of this …