COMPARATIVE ECOLOGY OF TIDAL FRESHWATER AND SALT MARSHES
Abstract
After several decades of intensive research in salt marshes, both community structure and basic ecological processes are reasonably well understood (44, 50, 78, 88). Further up the estuary, however, the often extensive tracts of tidal freshwater wetlands (Figure 1) are not so well researched (52, 99, 113). Historically, tidal freshwater environments have been ignored by limnologists because of the presence of oceanic tidal influence, and neglected by marine ecologists because they are bathed by freshwater and inhabited primarily by freshwater organisms.
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Typically, species richness and total biomass tend to have parabolic, nonlinear relationships with salinity, displaying a minimum in mesohaline waters because of the physiological demands of living in brackish waters.
“Typically, species richness and total biomass tend to have parabolic, nonlinear relationships with salinity, dis playing a minimum in mesohaline waters because of the physiological demands of living in these brackish waters (Odum 1988, Wagner 1999).”
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- Authors
- Odum, W. E.
- Corresponding author
- Odum, William E.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1988-11
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 147-176
- ISSN
- 0066-4162 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2100768394
- Cited by
- 543
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Keywords
- tidal freshwater wetlands, salt marshes, comparative ecology, estuarine ecology, tidal effects, community structure, freshwater-marine interface, coastal wetlands
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