Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological
services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as …

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 …

Salt marshes buffer coastlines and provide critical ecosystem services from storm protection
to food provision. Worldwide, these ecosystems are in danger of disappearing if they cannot …

A detailed account of the biology and ecology of vascular wetland plants and their
applications in wetland plant science, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology presents a …

▪ Abstract Recent overviews have suggested that the relationship between species richness
and productivity (rate of conversion of resources to biomass per unit area per unit time) is …

In Carpinteria Salt Marsh, Salicornia virginica (pickleweed) grows at lower marsh elevations
than does Arthrocnemum subterminalis (Parish's glasswort). Standing biomass of both …

In New England salt marshes the boundary between frequently flooded low marsh habitats
and less frequently flooded high marsh habitats is characterized by striking plant zonation …

Recent research has emphasized the importance of riparian ecosystems as centers of
biodiversity and links between terrestrial and aquatic systems. Riparian ecosystems also …

After several decades of intensive research in salt marshes, both community structure and
basic ecological processes are reasonably well understood (44, 50, 78, 88). Further up the …

1 We investigated the factors producing zonation patterns of the dominant plants in south-
eastern USA salt marshes where Juncus roemerianus dominates the high marsh, and …