By Sergio Fagherazzi, Marco Marani, Linda K. Blum
Published by way of the yank Geophysical Union as a part of the Coastal and Estuarine experiences, quantity 59.
Salt marshes are coastal wetlands usually inundated through tides. Given their extraordinary features, salt marshes are colonized by way of salt-tolerant groups of vegetation (halophytes) tailored to saturated soil stipulations. plants has a massive function not just in marsh ecology, but in addition for the hydrology and geomorphology of those environments. for instance, the suggestions among marsh elevation and crops is prime for the survival of salt marshes, rather whilst endangered by way of weather switch and sea-level upward push. nonetheless, the morphology of salt marshes and the strategies that shape this atypical panorama have a powerful impression at the ecosystem's functionality and structure.
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