Centuries of human-driven change in salt marsh ecosystems

KB Gedan, BR Silliman… - Annual review of marine …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Salt marshes are among the most abundant, fertile, and accessible coastal habitats on earth,
and they provide more ecosystem services to coastal populations than any other …

Practical guide to measuring wetland carbon pools and fluxes

S Bansal, IF Creed, BA Tangen, SD Bridgham… - Wetlands, 2023 - Springer
Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global
carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes …

Herbivory limits success of vegetation restoration globally

C Xu, BR Silliman, J Chen, X Li, MS Thomsen, Q Zhang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Determinants of trophic cascade strength in freshwater ecosystems: a global analysis

H Su, Y Feng, J Chen, J Chen, S Ma, J Fang, P **e - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐down cascade effects are among the most important mechanisms underlying
community structure and abundance dynamics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems …

[BOOK][B] Ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands

DP Batzer, RR Sharitz - 2014 - books.google.com
This second edition of this important and authoritative survey provides students and
researchers with up-to-date and accessible information about the ecology of freshwater and …

Role of crab herbivory in die‐off of New England salt marshes

C Holdredge, MD Bertness, AH Altieri - Conservation Biology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Die‐offs of cordgrass are pervasive throughout western Atlantic salt marshes, yet
understanding of the mechanisms precipitating these events is limited. We tested whether …

Experimental warming causes rapid loss of plant diversity in New England salt marshes

KB Gedan, MD Bertness - Ecology letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to cause widespread biodiversity loss due to
shifts in species' distributions, but these predictions rarely incorporate ecological …

Geographical variation in vegetative growth and sexual reproduction of the invasive Spartina alterniflora in China

W Liu, K Maung‐Douglass, DR Strong… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic variation plays an important role in successful plant invasions. The spread of
invasive species over large geographic ranges may be facilitated if plants can match their …

Not all nitrogen is created equal: differential effects of nitrate and ammonium enrichment in coastal wetlands

JL Bowen, AE Giblin, AE Murphy, AN Bulseco… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Excess reactive nitrogen (N) flows from agricultural, suburban, and urban systems to coasts,
where it causes eutrophication. Coastal wetlands take up some of this N, thereby …

Intertidal mudflat and saltmarsh conservation and sustainable use in the UK: A review

NM Foster, MD Hudson, S Bray, RJ Nicholls - Journal of environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
The adoption of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance in Ramsar, Iran in
1971 committed the UK to conserve and sustainably use intertidal mudflats and saltmarshes …