Soil organic carbon stocks in a tidal marsh landscape are dominated by human marsh embankment and subsequent marsh progradation

Heavy metal and organic carbon fractionation in sodium pyrophosphate extracts of tidal marsh soils

Salt Marsh Tidal Channels

Salt marsh tidal channels are highly sinuous. For this project, field surveys and aerial photographs were used to characterize the planform of tidal channels at China Camp Marsh in the San Francisco Bay, California. To model the planform evolution, we assume that the topographic curvature of the channel centreline is a key element driving meander migration. Extraction of curvature data from a p...

Tidal influences on carbon assimilation by a salt marsh

Salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, and play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Net carbon dioxide (CO2) ecosystem exchanges in coastal salt marshes remain poorly investigated. In Spartina alterniflora dominated North American Atlantic coast marshes, the lack of a clear understanding of how Spartina alterniflora responds to flooding limits our current abil...

Inorganic carbon and oxygen dynamics in a marsh‐dominated estuary

We conducted a free-water mass balance-based study to address the rate of metabolism and net carbon exchange for the tidal wetland and estuarine portion of the coastal ocean and the uncertainties associated with this approach were assessed. We measured open water diurnal O2 and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) dynamics seasonally in a salt marsh-estuary in Georgia, U.S.A. with a focus on the ma...

Nitrogen retention in a tidal freshwater marsh

Nitrogen assimilation and short term retention in a nutrient-rich tidal freshwater marsh – a whole ecosystem N enrichment study B. Gribsholt, E. Struyf, A. Tramper, L. De Brabandere, N. Brion, S. van Damme, P. Meire, F. Dehairs, J. J. Middelburg, and H. T. S. Boschker Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Center for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, P.O. Box 140, 4400AC Yerseke, The Netherlands Univers...