Short-term impact of sediment addition on plants and invertebrates in a southern California salt marsh.

ABSTRACT: The implementation and monitoring of management strategies is integral to protect coastal marshes from increased inundation and submergence under sea-level rise. Sediment addition is one such strategy in which sediment is added to marshes to raise relative elevations, decrease tidal inundation, and enhance ecosystem processes. This study looked at the plant and invertebrate community responses over 12 months following a sediment addition project on a salt marsh located in an urbanized estuary in southern California, USA. This salt marsh is experiencing local subsidence, is sediment-limited from landscape modifications, has resident protected species, and is at-risk of submergence from sea-level rise. Abiotic measurements, invertebrate cores, and plant parameters were analyzed before and af

SUBMITTER: McAtee KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7644084 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature