Concepts and controversies in tidal marsh ecology / edited by Michael P. Weinstein and Daniel A. Kreeger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weinstein, Michael P.

Kreeger, Daniel A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salt marsh ecology--Congresses.

Salt marsh ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (894 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2000.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.

Contents:

Retrospective on the Salt Marsh Paradigm

Tidal Marshes as Outwelling/Pulsing Systems

Salt Marsh Values: Retrospection from the end of the Century

Sources and Patterns of Production

Role of Salt Marshes as Part of Coastal Landscapes

Spatial Variation in Process and Pattern in Salt Marsh Plant Communities in Eastern North America

Eco-Physiological Controls on the Productivity of Spartina Alterniflora Loisel

Community Structure and Functional Dynamics of Benthic Microalgae in Salt Marshes

Structure and Productivity of Microtidal Mediterranean Coastal Marshes

Development and Structure of Salt Marshes: Community Patterns in Time and Space

Fate of Production within Marsh Food Webs

Microbial Secondary Production from Salt Marsh-Grass Shoots, and Its Known and Potential Fates

Trophic Complexity Between Producers and Invertebrate Consumers in Salt Marshes

Trophic Linkages in Marshes: Ontogenetic Changes in Diet for Young-of-the-Year Mummichog, Fundulus Heteroclitus

Habitat Value: Food and/or Refuge

Factors Influencing Habitat Selection in Fishes with a Review of Marsh Ecosystems

Salt Marsh Ecoscapes and Production Transfers by Estuarine Nekton in the Southeastern United States

Salt Marsh Linkages to Productivity of Penaeid Shrimps and Blue Crabs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Ecophysiological Determinants of Secondary Production in Salt Marshes: A Simulation Study

Salt Marsh Ecosystem Support of Marine Transient Species

Biogeochemical Processes

Benthic-Pelagic Coupling in Marsh-Estuarine Ecosystems

Twenty More Years of Marsh and Estuarine Flux Studies: Revisiting Nixon (1980)

The Role of Oligohaline Marshes in Estuarine Nutrient Cycling

Molecular Tools for Studying Biogeochemical Cycling in Salt Marshes

Nitrogen and Vegetation Dynamics in European Salt Marshes

Modelling Nutrient and Energy Flux

A Stable Isotope Model Approach to Estimating the Contribution of Organic Matter from Marshes to Estuaries

Types of Salt Marsh Edge and Export of Trophic Energy from Marshes to Deeper Habitats

Silicon is the Link between Tidal Marshes and Estuarine Fisheries: A New Paradigm

Tidal Marsh Restoration: Fact or Fiction?

Self-Design Applied to Coastal Restoration

Functional Equivalency of Restored and Natural Salt Marshes

Organic and Inorganic Contributions to Vertical Accretion in Salt Marsh Sediments

Landscape Structure and Scale Constraints on Restoring Estuarine Wetlands for Pacific Coast Juvenile Fishes

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

Influences of Vegetation and Abiotic Environmental Factors on Salt Marsh Invertebrates

Measuring Function of Restored Tidal Marshes

The Health and Long Term Stability of Natural and Restored Marshes in Chesapeake Bay

Soil Organic Matter (SOM) Effects on Infaunal Community Structure in Restored and Created Tidal Marshes

Initial Response of Fishes to Marsh Restoration at a Former Salt Hay Farm Bordering Delaware Bay

Success Criteria for Tidal Marsh Restoration

Catastrophes, Near-Catastrophes and the Bounds of Expectation: Success Criteria for Macroscale Marsh Restoration

References is a Moving Target in Sea-Level Controlled Wetlands

Linking the Success of Phragmites to the Alteration of Ecosystem Nutrient Cycles

Restoration of Salt and Brackish Tidelands in Southern New England.

Notes:

Proceedings of a meeting held in Vineland, New Jersey, April 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-20021-9

9786610200214

0-306-47534-0

OCLC:

70771468