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Spartina alterniflora Biomass Allocation and Temperature: Implications for Salt Marsh Persistence with Sea-Level Rise

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Sarah C. Crosby, Angus Angermeyer, Jennifer M. Adler, Mark D. Bertness, Linda A. Deegan, Nathaniel Sibinga, and Heather M. Leslie, Spartina alterniflora Biomass Allocation and Temperature: Implications for Salt Marsh Persistence with Sea-Level Rise: Estuaries and Coasts, v. 40, iss. 1.

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Abstract (from http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-016-0142-9): To predict the impacts of climate change, a better understanding is needed of the foundation species that build and maintain biogenic ecosystems. Spartina alterniflora Loisel (smooth cordgrass) is the dominant salt marsh-building plant along the US Atlantic coast. It maintains salt marsh elevation relative to sea level by the accumulation of aboveground biomass, which promotes sediment deposition and belowground biomass, which accretes as peat. Peat accumulation is particularly important in elevation maintenance at high latitudes where sediment supply tends to be limited. Latitudinal variation in S. alterniflora growth was quantified in eight salt marshes from [...]

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