Increasing tidal inundation corresponds to rising porewater nutrient concentrations in a southeastern U.S. salt marsh.

ABSTRACT: Salt marshes are ecologically and economically important features of coastal environments that are vulnerable to sea level rise, the rate of which has accelerated in recent decades along the southeastern US Atlantic coast. Increased flooding frequency and duration across the marsh platform is predicted to impact vegetation community structure and overall marsh persistence, but the effect of changing inundation patterns on biogeochemical processes in marsh sediments remains largely unexplored. As part of a long-term monitoring effort to assess how marshes are responding to sea level rise in North Inlet estuary (South Carolina, USA), we collected data on porewater nutrient concentrations from a series of permanent monitoring plots across multiple transects spanning the marsh elevation gradie

SUBMITTER: Krask JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9704656 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature