By Sergio Fagherazzi, Marco Marani, Linda K. Blum
Published via the yankee Geophysical Union as a part of the Coastal and Estuarine reviews Series.
Salt marshes are coastal wetlands often inundated by means of tides. Given their atypical features, salt marshes are colonized by means of salt-tolerant groups of crops (halophytes) tailored to saturated soil stipulations. plants has a massive position not just in marsh ecology, but additionally for the hydrology and geomorphology of those environments. for instance, the suggestions among marsh elevation and plants is key for the survival of salt marshes, fairly while endangered by means of weather swap and sea-level upward thrust. however, the morphology of salt marshes and the procedures that shape this extraordinary panorama have a robust impression at the ecosystem's functionality and structure.
Content:
Chapter 1 creation: the Coupled Evolution of Geomorphological and surroundings buildings in Salt Marshes (pages 1–4): S. Fagherazzi, M. Marani and L. ok. Blum
Chapter 2 Salt?Marsh plants and Morphology: easy body structure, Modelling and distant Sensing Observations (pages 5–25): Sonia Silvestri and Marco Marani
Chapter three distant Sensing of Tidal Networks and Their Relation to plants (pages 27–46): D.C. Mason and T. R. Scott
Chapter four Belowground construction and Decomposition alongside a Tidal Gradient in a Virginia Salt Marsh (pages 47–73): Linda ok. Blum and Robert R. Christian
Chapter five Tidal Networks: shape and serve as (pages 75–91): Andrea Rinaldo, Enrica Belluco, Andrea D'Alpaos, Alessandra Feola, Stefano Lanzoni and Marco Marani
Chapter 6 results of Low Tide Rainfall on Intertidal quarter fabric biking (pages 93–114): Raymond Torres, Miguel A. Goni,, George Voulgaris, Charles R. Lovell and James T. Morris
Chapter 7 Salt Marsh Microbial Ecology: Microbes, Benthic Mats and Sediment circulation (pages 115–136): Rebecca J. Aspden, Suzanne Vardy and David M. Paterson
Chapter eight Vegetated move Dynamics (pages 137–163): H. M. Nepf
Chapter nine movement, Sedimentation, and Biomass creation on a Vegetated Salt Marsh in South Carolina: towards a Predictive version of Marsh Morphologic and Ecologic Evolution (pages 165–188): Simon Marius Mudd, Sergio Fagherazzi, James T. Morris and David Jon Furbish
Chapter 10 Geologic heritage and the Ergodic precept: Foundations for Long?Term Ecological examine in Salt Marshes (pages 189–201): Leonard Robert Gardner
Chapter eleven Responses of Salt Marshes to Disturbance in an Ecogeomorphological Context, with a Case learn of Trampling by means of Deer (pages 203–230): M. A. Keusenkothen and R. R. Christian
Chapter 12 Dynamics of Tidal Salt Barren Formation and the checklist Of Present?Day Sea point switch (pages 231–245): Yuch Ping Hsieh
Chapter thirteen Ecogeomorphology of Spartina Patens?dominated tidal marshes: Soil natural subject accumulation, marsh elevation dynamics, and disturbance (pages 247–266): Donald R. Cahoon, Mark A. Ford and Philippe F. Hensel