Open AccessThe life and death of salt marshes in response to anthropogenic disturbance of sediment supply
Author(s) -
Simon M. Mudd
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/focus052011.1
Subject(s) - salt marsh , disturbance (geology) , marsh , sediment , geology , hydrology (agriculture) , oceanography , geomorphology , ecology , wetland , geotechnical engineering , biology
Salt marshes occur extensively along mid-latitude coasts and provide valuable ecosystem services such as filtering pollutants, attenuating waves during storms, enhancing yields of fisheries, and serving as an organic carbon sink (e.g., [Costanza et al., 1997][1]). Both the emergence and continued
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