Marsh migration and beyond: A scalable framework to assess tidal wetland resilience and support strategic management.

ABSTRACT: Tidal wetlands are critical but highly threatened ecosystems that provide vital services. Efficient stewardship of tidal wetlands requires robust comparative assessments of different marshes to understand their resilience to stressors, particularly in the face of relative sea level rise. Existing assessment frameworks aim to address tidal marsh resilience, but many are either too localized or too general, and few directly translate resilience evaluations to recommendations for management strategies. In response to the deficiencies in existing frameworks, we identified a set of metrics that influence overall marsh resilience that can be assessed at any spatial scale. We then developed a new comprehensive assessment framework to rank relative marsh resilience using these metrics, which are n

SUBMITTER: Stevens RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10627444 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature