Attaining freshwater and estuarine-water soil saturation in an ecosystem-scale coastal flooding experiment.

ABSTRACT: Coastal upland forests are facing widespread mortality as sea-level rise accelerates and precipitation and storm regimes change. The loss of coastal forests has significant implications for the coastal carbon cycle; yet, predicting mortality likelihood is difficult due to our limited understanding of disturbance impacts on coastal forests. The manipulative, ecosystem-scale Terrestrial Ecosystem Manipulation to Probe the Effects of Storm Treatments (TEMPEST) experiment addresses the potential for freshwater and estuarine-water disturbance events to alter tree function, species composition, and ecosystem processes in a deciduous coastal forest in MD, USA. The experiment uses a large-unit (2000 m²), un-replicated experimental design, with three 50 m × 40 m plots serving as control,

SUBMITTER: Hopple AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9958149 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature