Salt marsh restoration: an overview of techniques and success indicators

MM Billah, MKA Bhuiyan, MA Islam, J Das… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Coastal wetlands including salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on
Earth. They are known for improving the quality of coastal water and provisioning coastal …

Organic blue carbon sequestration in vegetated coastal wetlands: Processes and influencing factors

Q Hao, Z Song, X Zhang, D He, L Guo… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coastal wetlands play a vital role in carbon (C) sequestration, named 'blue carbon'. The
review aims to disentangle the processes and influencing factors, including elevated …

Ecosystem metabolism dynamics and environmental drivers in Mediterranean confined coastal lagoons

M Bas-Silvestre, XD Quintana, J Compte… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Aquatic metabolism is an important descriptor of ecosystem functioning. The metabolism of
ponds and confined coastal lagoons has been poorly studied in comparison to other aquatic …

Ecological restoration promotes zooplankton network complexity in Mediterranean coastal lagoons

D Hernández‐Carrasco… - Restoration …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological recovery following restoration is typically evaluated using metrics based on
species diversity and composition. However, increasing evidence suggests the success of …

[HTML][HTML] Different microbial functioning in natural versus man-made Mediterranean coastal lagoons in relation to season

J Boadella, A Butturini, J Compte, G Gionchetta… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Coastal marsh lagoons are of high ecological relevance playing a key role in the carbon
cycle but are threatened to disappear due to global change effects. Restoration practices …

Deurbanizing for conservation and adapting: framing ecological restoration as a nature-based solution in La Pletera salt marsh, Catalonia (Spain)

D Pereira Lindoso, D Boix, A Ribas, J Bou… - Frontiers in …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the great global challenges of the
21st century. The nature-based solutions (NbS) approach creates an opportunity to meet …

Metacommunity structures of dormant and active zooplankton in two distant mediterranean regions

C López‐Allendes, Á Gálvez, X Armengol… - Freshwater …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Temporary ponds are small‐sized limnic systems that dry periodically. The length of the wet
phase defines the hydroregime and determines community assembly in temporary ponds …

Identifying critical transitions in seasonal shifts of zooplankton composition in a confined coastal salt marsh

XD Quintana, M Antón-Pardo, M Bas-Silvestre, D Boix… - Aquatic Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Zooplankton assemblages in the confined coastal lagoons of La Pletera salt marshes (Baix
Ter wetlands, Girona, Spain) are dominated by two species: one calanoid copepod …

Phytoplankton composition in Mediterranean confined coastal lagoons: testing the use of ecosystem metabolism for the quantification of community-related variables

M Bas-Silvestre, M Antón-Pardo, D Boix, S Gascón… - Aquatic Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Estimations of ecosystem metabolism have rarely been used to quantify productivity in
structural reductionist approaches for the description of phytoplankton composition …

Criteris ecològics i percepció social en la restauració de la Pletera

X Quintana, M Bas-Silvestre, D Boix, J Bou, À Colomer… - Atzavara, L', 2024 - raco.cat
A la maresma de la Pletera es va iniciar als anys 80 un procés d'urbanització inacabat, que
s' aturà a causa de la crisi econòmica dels anys 90 i va quedar abandonat. Entre els anys …