Global hotspots of salt marsh change and carbon emissions

AD Campbell, L Fatoyinbo, L Goldberg, D Lagomasino - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Salt marshes provide ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, coastal protection,
sea-level-rise (SLR) adaptation and recreation. SLR, storm events, drainage and mangrove …

An integrative salt marsh conceptual framework for global comparisons

ES Yando, SF Jones, WR James… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes occur globally across climatic and coastal settings, providing key linkages
between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, salt marsh science lacks a unifying …

Challenges and opportunities for sustaining coastal wetlands and oyster reefs in the southeastern United States

T Kyzar, I Safak, J Cebrian, MW Clark, N Dix… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Formed at the confluence of marine and fresh waters, estuaries experience both the seaside
pressures of rising sea levels and increasing storm severity, and watershed and …

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 …

Shorebirds-driven trophic cascade helps restore coastal wetland multifunctionality

C Li, J Chen, X Liao, AP Ramus, C Angelini… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ecosystem restoration has traditionally focused on re-establishing vegetation and other
foundation species at basal trophic levels, with mixed outcomes. Here, we show that …

Coupling breakwalls with oyster restoration structures enhances living shoreline performance along energetic shorelines

I Safak, PL Norby, N Dix, RE Grizzle, M Southwell… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Interest and investment in constructing living shorelines rather than harder engineering
structures are on the rise worldwide. However, the performance of these interventions in …

Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes

SM Crotty, D Pinton, A Canestrelli, HS Fischman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The fate of coastal ecosystems depends on their ability to keep pace with sea-level rise—yet
projections of accretion widely ignore effects of engineering fauna. Here, we quantify effects …

[HTML][HTML] A spatiotemporal framework to assess the bio-geomorphic interplay of saltmarsh vegetation and tidal emergence (Western Scheldt estuary)

J Feng, TJ Grandjean, J van de Koppel… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Sea level changes will significantly drive hydrodynamic, morphological, and ecological
development of estuaries. However, the interplay of geomorphology and vegetation at …

Randomly Distributed Crab Burrows Enhance Groundwater Flow and Salt Transport in Creek‐Marsh Systems

M Yin, K **ao, P **n, H Li, C Zheng… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Macropores created by crab burrowing are commonly found in vegetated coastal wetlands.
However, their impact on surface water‐groundwater interactions and salt transport is …

Dynamic emergent leaf area in tidal wetlands: Implications for satellite-derived regional and global blue carbon estimates

PA Hawman, DR Mishra, JL O'Connell - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
highlights the importance of blue carbon in tidal wetlands in combating climate change. In …