Salt Marshes
eBook - PDF

Salt Marshes

Function, Dynamics, and Stresses

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Salt Marshes

Function, Dynamics, and Stresses

About this book

Salt marshes are highly dynamic and important ecosystems that dampen impacts of coastal storms and are an integral part of tidal wetland systems, which sequester half of all global marine carbon. They are now being threatened due to sea-level rise, decreased sediment influx, and human encroachment. This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest salt marsh science, investigating their functions and how they are responding to stresses through formation of salt pannes and pools, headward erosion of tidal creeks, marsh-edge erosion, ice-fracturing, and ice-rafted sedimentation. Written by experts in marsh ecology, coastal geomorphology, wetland biology, estuarine hydrodynamics, and coastal sedimentation, it provides a multidisciplinary summary of recent advancements in our knowledge of salt marshes. The future of wetlands and potential deterioration of salt marshes is also considered, providing a go-to reference for graduate students and researchers studying these coastal systems, as well as marsh managers and restoration scientists.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 State of Salt Marshes
  9. Part I Marsh Function
  10. Part II Marsh Dynamics
  11. Part III Marsh Response to Stress
  12. Index