Surface water and groundwater interactions in salt marshes and their impact on plant ecology and coastal biogeochemistry

P **n, A Wilson, C Shen, Z Ge, KB Moffett… - Reviews of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological
services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as …

From ecological functions to ecosystem services: linking coastal lagoons biodiversity with human well-being

JL Rodrigues-Filho, RL Macêdo, H Sarmento… - Hydrobiologia, 2023‏ - Springer
In this review we highlight the relevance of biodiversity that inhabit coastal lagoons,
emphasizing how species functions foster processes and services associated with this …

Top-predator recovery abates geomorphic decline of a coastal ecosystem

BB Hughes, KM Beheshti, MT Tinker, C Angelini… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
The recovery of top predators is thought to have cascading effects on vegetated ecosystems
and their geomorphology,, but the evidence for this remains correlational and intensely …

The blue carbon of southern southwest Atlantic salt marshes and their biotic and abiotic drivers

P Martinetto, J Alberti, ME Becherucci… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Coastal vegetated ecosystems are acknowledged for their capacity to sequester organic
carbon (OC), known as blue C. Yet, blue C global accounting is incomplete, with major gaps …

[PDF][PDF] 7.04—Physical ecosystem engineers and the functioning of estuaries and coasts

JL Gutiérrez, CG Jones, JE Byers… - Treatise on estuarine …, 2011‏ - researchgate.net
A great diversity of organisms modify the physical structure of estuarine and coastal
environments. These physical ecosystem engineers–particularly, dune and marsh plants …

Contrasting effects of two burrowing crabs (Chasmagnathus granulata and Uca uruguayensis) on sediment composition and transport in estuarine environments

F Botto, O Iribarne - Estuarine, coastal and shelf Science, 2000‏ - Elsevier
The burrowing crabs Chasmagnathus granulata and Uca uruguayensis are important
bioturbators of intertidal flats in SW Atlantic estuaries reworking large amounts of sediment …

Plant zonation in irregularly flooded salt marshes: relative importance of stress tolerance and biological interactions

CSB Costa, JC Marangoni, AMG Azevedo - Journal of Ecology, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Most studies of salt marsh plant zonation have been at middle to high latitudes
of the northern hemisphere, in euhaline or periodically hypersaline marshes with regular …

Effects of bioturbation by root and crab activity on iron and sulfur biogeochemistry in mangrove substrate

TO Ferreira, XL Otero, P Vidal-Torrado, F Macías - Geoderma, 2007‏ - Elsevier
Solid-phase analysis was undertaken to obtain information on the effects of bioturbation
(activity of plants and macrofauna) on the distribution of different forms of iron and sulfur in a …

Bioturbation of burrowing crabs promotes sediment turnover and carbon and nitrogen movements in an estuarine salt marsh

JQ Wang, XD Zhang, LF Jiang, MD Bertness, CM Fang… - Ecosystems, 2010‏ - Springer
Ecological functions of bioturbation in ecosystems have received increasing attention over
the recent decades, and crab burrowing has been considered as one of the major …

Biota‐mediated carbon cycling—a synthesis of biotic‐interaction controls on blue carbon

L Ren, K Jensen, P Porada, P Mueller - Ecology Letters, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research into biotic interactions has been a core theme of ecology for over a century.
However, despite the obvious role that biota play in the global carbon cycle, the effects of …