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Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud. “This is a place where you could get ...

Pickleweed grows noticeably taller and denser in the fenced area from which crabs are excluded. (Photo by K. Beheshti) Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, ...

As the highest plateau in the world, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has large areas of marshes, which have important effects on the biogeochemical cycle and carbon balance. As an important functional ...

It is a premise in ecology that undisturbed ecosystems are relatively stable, and hence that sudden changes in ecosystem are likely to result from external, mostly human influences. Johan van de ...