Are Tidal Salt Marshes Exposed to Nutrient Pollution more Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise?
| العنوان: | Are Tidal Salt Marshes Exposed to Nutrient Pollution more Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise? |
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| المؤلفون: | Nicole Maher, Cathleen Wigand, Elizabeth Burke Watson, Johannes R. Krause |
| المصدر: | Wetlands (Wilmington) |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Marsh, Tidal range, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Ecology, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Intertidal zone, Wetland, Biota, 01 natural sciences, Article, Nutrient pollution, Salt marsh, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental science, Eutrophication, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, General Environmental Science |
| الوصف: | Over the past four decades, Long Island, NY, USA, has lost coastal wetlands at a rate of 4% per decade due to submergence. In this study, we examined relationships between the rate of tidal salt marsh loss and environmental factors, including marsh elevation, tidal range, and wastewater exposure through analysis of stable isotope ratios of marsh soils and biota. Our goal was to identify factors that increase vulnerability of marshes to sea level rise, with a specific emphasis on the potential role of poor water quality in hastening marsh loss. Our results suggest that wastewater exposure may accelerate loss of intertidal marsh, but does not negatively impact high tidal marsh resilience to sea level rise. And while marsh elevation and tidal range were statistically significant predictors of marsh loss, they similarly displayed opposite relationships among marsh zones. This study suggests that different functional zones of coastal salt marshes may not respond similarly to global change factors, and that elevation may be an important factor mediating eutrophication effects to coastal salt marshes. |
| تدمد: | 1943-6246 0277-5212 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::576dc438b09665a884656ba09e1c5551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01254-8 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....576dc438b09665a884656ba09e1c5551 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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