As a symptom of accelerated sea level rise and historic impacts to tidal hydrology from
agricultural and mosquito control activities, coastal marshes in the Northeastern US are …

Salt marshes are at risk globally if they cannot keep pace with sea level rise. Along the
United States Mid-Atlantic coast, high marsh has already declined, and is particularly …

Salt marshes are increasingly vulnerable to degradation and loss from accelerating sea-
level rise and other pervasive disturbances, spurring a need for broad, science-based …

Ditching is one of the most widespread forms of anthropogenic impact on tidal marshes but
its effects remain poorly understood. Recently, the phenomenon of “waffle” pooling has been …

Ponds in salt marshes are often misinterpreted as a symptom of degradation, yet ponds can
also be part of a cyclical process of pond formation, expansion, breaching by tidal creeks …

Many coastal wetlands display degradation attributable to various factors including land
development, erosion, salinization, and a lack of sediment inputs (Barras et al. 2003; …

PURPOSE: The following document provides a technical definition of thin layer placement
(TLP) activities for US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) applications. A discussion of the …

One of the main mechanisms for salt marsh decline across the United States is the inability
of the marsh surface to keep pace with sea level rise. The interior platform is especially …

Thin-layer placement (TLP) is the “purposeful placement of thin layers of sediment (eg,
dredged material) in an environmentally acceptable manner to achieve a target elevation or …

Abstract Species [updated 3/7/2017]--This document describes our species-based
assessment based on the concept of landscape capability for a suite of representative …