Zonation and soil factors of salt marsh halophyte communities

Competition and Salt-Marsh Plant Zonation: Stress Tolerators May Be Dominant Competitors

Although a great deal of research has focused on the effects of nutrient supply on plant competition, few studies have explored how these processes interact with nonresource factors to determine community-level patterns. This study examined how resource competition interacts with physical stress to structure salt-marsh plant communities across a natural gradient in tidal stress. First, nutrient...

Using Avian Communities to Evaluate Salt Marsh Restoration

The objectives of this study were to document avian species inhabiting West River Memorial Park in New Haven, Connecticut and develop goals for restoration of a salt marsh bird community. Restoration goals were based on the breeding season bird community at the restoration site, breeding season communities of less disturbed salt marshes, and a literature review. Community descriptions included ...

Consumer trait variation influences tritrophic interactions in salt marsh communities

The importance of intraspecific variation has emerged as a key question in community ecology, helping to bridge the gap between ecology and evolution. Although much of this work has focused on plant species, recent syntheses have highlighted the prevalence and potential importance of morphological, behavioral, and life history variation within animals for ecological and evolutionary processes. ...

Investigating Microbial Communities in Salt Marsh Sediments Using Card-fish

Mycorrhizal fungi determine salt-marsh plant zonation depending on nutrient supply

1 Laboratorio de Ecología, Departamento de Biología (FCEyN), UNMdP, CC 573 Correo Central, B7600WAG, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3 Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía (IADO), CC 804, Correo Central, 8000, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 4 Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, U...