Will a rising sea sink some estuarine wetland ecosystems?

The Ecology of Wetland Ecosystems

This extension note describes the basic ecological features of wetland ecosystems. It is a foundational document that provides important concepts and background information to be applied in future extension notes on wetland management. Major topics and concepts covered in this document are: • definition of a wetland ecosystem and comparison of characteristics with other related ecosystems, • re...

Source and sink dynamics in meta-ecosystems.

We present a theory extending the source-sink concept with an ecosystem perspective. We analyze a model for meta-ecosystem dynamics in a heterogeneous environment to study how the spatial flows of materials such as inorganic nutrients and nutrients sequestered into producers, herbivores, and detritus affect the community dynamics. We show that spatial flows of an inorganic nutrient (direct nutr...

Rising sea levels will reduce extreme temperature variations in tide-dominated reef habitats

Temperatures within shallow reefs often differ substantially from those in the surrounding ocean; therefore, predicting future patterns of thermal stresses and bleaching at the scale of reefs depends on accurately predicting reef heat budgets. We present a new framework for quantifying how tidal and solar heating cycles interact with reef morphology to control diurnal temperature extremes withi...

Restoration and Management of Healthy Wetland Ecosystems

1Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China 2School of Ecological and Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China 3School of Resources and Environment, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China 4Biology Department, State University of Maringá, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil 5Vaasa Energy Institut...

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