The North American mid-continent population of Lesser snow geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens L.) has increased by ca. 7% per year, largely as a result of geese feeding on agricultural crops in winter and on migration. We describe the long-term effects of increasing numbers of geese at an arctic breeding round (La P6rouse Bay, Manitoba) on intertidal salt-marsh vegetation. Between 1985 and 1...

Projections of global climate change over the next century indicate that multiple stresses to coastal ecosystems are expected. Sea level rise is one effect of climate change that may significantly alter current estuarine habitats, resulting in the need to modify current management strategies. A one dimensional (1D) hydraulic analysis was completed for the Caloosahatchee Estuary to determine the...

Succession has been of enduring interest since the inception ecological theory and remains central to contemporary questions (Chang & Turner, 2019; Meiners et al., 2015). Primary succession involves changes in abiotic environment that modulate outcome biotic interactions but mechanisms, notably facilitation, inhibition tolerance, have contentious (Connell Slatyer, 1977; Farrell, 1991; Pickett 1...