Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology

About this book

Reviews the status of salt marsh research and surveys the existing models of salt marsh function.

Contents

Foreword. Dedication. Preface. Retrospective on the Salt Marsh Paradigm. Tidal marshes as outwelling/pulsing systems; E.P. Odum. Salt marsh values: etrospection from the end of the century; J.M. Teal, B.L. Howes. Sources and Patterns of Production. Role of salt marshes as part of coastal landscapes; I. Valiela, et al. Spatial variation in process and pattern in salt marsh plant communities in eastern North America; M.D. Bertness, S.C. Pennings. Eco-physiological controls on the productivity of Spartina alterniflore; I.A. Menselssohn, J.T. Morris. Community structure and functional dynamics of benthic microalgae in salt marshes; M.J. Sullivan, C.A. Currin. Structure and productivity of microtidal Mediterranean coastal marshes; C. Ibanez, et al. Development and structure of salt marshes: community patterns in time and space; A.J. Davy. Fate of Production Within Marsh Food Webs. Microbial secondary production from salt marsh-grass shoots, and its known and potential fates; S.Y. Newell, D. Porter. Trophic complexity between producers and invertebrate consumers in salt marshes; D.A. Kreeger, R.I.E. Newell. Trophic linkages in marshes: ontogenetic changes in diet for young-of-the-year mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus; K.J. Smith, et al. Habitat Value: Food and/or Refuge. Factors influencing habitat selection in fishes with a review of marsh ecosystems; J.K. Craig, L.B. Crowder. Salt marsh ecoscapes and production transfers by estuarine nekton in the southeastern U.S.; R.T. Kneib. Salt marsh linkages to productivity of penaeid shrimps and blue crabs in the northern Gulf of Mexico; R.J. Zimmerman, et al. Ecophysiological determinants of secondary production in salt marshes: a simulation study; J.M. Miller, et al. Salt marsh ecosystem support of marine transient species; L.A. Deegan, et al. Biogeochemical Processes. Benthic-pelagic coupling in marsh-estuarine ecosystems; R.F. Dame, et al. Twenty more years of marsh and estuarine flux studies: revisiting Nixon (1980); D.L. Childers, et al. The role of oligohaline marshes in estuarine nutrient cycling; J.Z. Merrill, J.C. Cornwell. Molecular tools for studying biogeochemical cycling in salt marshes; L. Kerkhof, D.J. Scala. Nitrogen and vegetation dyamics in European salt marshes; J. Rozema, et al. Modeling Nutrient and Energy Flux. A stable isotope model approach to estimating the contribution of organic matter from marshes to estuaries; P.M. Eldrige, L.A. Cifuentes. Types of salt marsh edge and export of trophic energy from marshes to deeper habitats; G. Cichetti, R.J. Diaz. Silicon is the link between tidal marshes and estuarine fisheries: a new paradigm; C.T. Hackney, et al. Tidal Marsh Restoration: Fact or Fiction? Self-design applied to coastal restoration; W.J. Mitsch. Functional equivalency of restored and natural salt marshes; J.B. Zedler, R. Lindig-Cisneros. Organic and inorganic contributions to vertical accretion in salt marsh sediments; R.E. Turner, et al. Landscape structure and scale constraints on restoring estuarine wetlands for Pacific coast juvenile fishes; C.A. Simenstad, et al. Ecological Engineering of Restored Marshes. The role of pulsing events in the functioning of coastal barriers and wetlands: implications for human impact, management and the response to sea level rise; J.W. Day, et al. Influences of vegetation and abiotic environmental factors on salt marsh invertebrates; L.A. Levin, T.S. Talley. Measuring Function of Restored Tidal Marshes. The Health and long term stability of natural and restored marshes in Chesapeake Bay; J.C. Stevenson, et al. Soil organic matter (SOM) effects on infaunal community structure in restored and created tidal marshes; S.W. Broome, et al. Initial response of fishes to marsh restoration at a former salt hay farm bordering Delaware Bay; K.W. Able, et al. Success Criteria for Tidal Marsh Restoration. Catastrophes, near-catastrophes, and the bounds of expectations: success criteria for macroscale marsh restoration; M.P. Weinstein, et al. Reference is a moving target in sea-level controlled wetlands; R.R. Christian, et al. Linking the success of Phragmites to the alteration of ecosystem nutrient cycles; L.A. Meyerson, et al. Restoration of salt and brackish tidelands in southern New England; P.E. Fell, et al.

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