Salt Marsh Habitats and Diamondback Terrapins in a Rapidly Changing Climate: A Review

MM Lamont, MJ Osland, MM Baustian - Estuaries and Coasts, 2025 - Springer
The impacts associated with global climate change (eg, sea-level rise, tropical storms, and
warming temperatures) are expected to alter predator–prey interactions, foundation species …

Retreating coastal forest supports saltmarsh invertebrates

EM Goetz, DS Johnson - Ecosphere, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As sea‐level rise converts coastal forest to salt marsh, marsh arthropods may migrate inland;
however, the resulting changes in arthropod communities, including the stage of forest …

Pattern changes and early risk warning of Spartina alterniflora invasion: a study of mangrove-dominated wetlands in northeastern Fujian, China

F Wang, J Zhang, Y Cao, R Wang, G Kattel… - Journal of Forestry …, 2023 - Springer
The exotic saltmarsh cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora (Loisel) Peterson & Saarela, is one of
the important causes for the extensive destruction of mangroves in China due to its invasive …

Resource availability and plant age drive defense against herbivory in salt marshes

SS Wittyngham, J Carey, DS Johnson - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The resource‐availability hypothesis (RAH) and the intraspecific RAH (RAHintra), posit that
resources,(ie nutrients) control plant antiherbivore defenses. Both hypotheses predict that in …

Recovery of the salt marsh periwinkle (Littoraria irrorata) 9 years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: size matters

DR Deis, JW Fleeger, DS Johnson… - Marine Pollution …, 2020 - Elsevier
Prior studies indicated salt marsh periwinkles (Littoraria irrorata) were strongly impacted in
heavily oiled marshes for at least 5 years following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Here, we …

Joint Effects of Fragmentation and Mercury Contamination on Marsh Periwinkle (Littoraria irrorata) Movement

M Krull, MC Newman - Environmental Toxicology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There are different ways contaminants can interact and enhance the effects of habitat
fragmentation, such as modifying the movement of organisms. The present study tested the …

Distribution Characteristics and Main Influencing Factors of Organic Carbon in Sediments of Spartina Alterniflora Wetlands along the Northern Jiangsu Coast, China

A Zhang, W Lv, Q Shu, Z Chen, Y Du, H Ye, L Xu, S Liu - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this study, columnar sediment samples were collected from north to south along the
northern Jiangsu coast, China, under Spartina alterniflora vegetation in four sample areas …

Role of ecological interactions in saltmarsh geomorphic processes

BL Williams, DS Johnson - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2021 - int-res.com
Accelerated sea-level rise poses a significant threat to coastal habitats, such as salt
marshes, which provide critical ecosystem services. Persistence of salt marshes with rising …

Salinity and Simulated Herbivory Influence Spartina alterniflora Traits and Defense Strategy

SS Wittyngham - Estuaries and Coasts, 2021 - Springer
Sea level rise is expected to push saline waters into previously fresher regions of estuaries,
and higher salinities may expose oligohaline marshes to invertebrate herbivores typically …

Distribution and Morphology of Littoraria irrorata in Mesohaline Tidal Marshes Dominated by Juncus roemerianus

CJ Anderson, C Garcia, JS Cash - Estuaries and Coasts, 2022 - Springer
Marsh periwinkle snails (Littoraria irrorata) are common in salt marshes of the Atlantic and
Gulf of Mexico coast and often occupy important ecological roles. Much of the published …