Surface water and groundwater interactions in salt marshes and their impact on plant ecology and coastal biogeochemistry

P Xin, A Wilson, C Shen, Z Ge, KB Moffett… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological
services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as …

Salt marsh hydrogeology: A review

J Guimond, J Tamborski - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Groundwater–surface water exchange in salt marsh ecosystems mediates nearshore salt,
nutrient, and carbon budgets with implications for biological productivity and global climate …

Effects of temperature on tidally influenced coastal unconfined aquifers

TTM Nguyen, X Yu, L Pu, P Xin, C Zhang… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aquifer‐ocean temperature contrasts are common worldwide. Their effects on flow and
salinity distributions in unconfined coastal aquifers are, however, poorly understood. Based …

Combined effects of tides, evaporation and rainfall on the soil conditions in an intertidal creek-marsh system

P Xin, T Zhou, C Lu, C Shen, C Zhang… - Advances in water …, 2017 - Elsevier
Salt marshes, distributed globally at the land-ocean interface, are a highly productive eco-
system with valuable ecological functions. While salt marshes are affected by various eco …

Salt dynamics in coastal marshes: Formation of hypersaline zones

C Shen, C Zhang, P Xin, J Kong… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Salt is a key solute in salt marshes and under the influence of evapotranspiration can
accumulate to a high concentration level in the marsh soil and precipitate in the solid form to …

Effects of tidally varying salinity on groundwater flow and solute transport: Insights from modelling an idealized creek marsh aquifer

K Xiao, H Li, Y Xia, J Yang, AM Wilson… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most existing numerical research on tide‐induced groundwater dynamics assumes a
constant surface water salinity on the seaward boundary (constant salinity case). Few …

Effects of a low-permeability layer on unstable flow pattern and land-sourced solute transport in coastal aquifers

J Zhang, C Lu, C Shen, C Zhang, J Kong, L Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
The tide-induced upper saline plume (USP) in coastal aquifers plays a critical role in
affecting the fate of land-sourced solutes. Early studies focused primarily on a quasi-steady …

Solute transport influenced by unstable flow in beach aquifers

C Shen, C Zhang, J Kong, P Xin, C Lu, Z Zhao… - Advances in Water …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that, in beach aquifers, tide-induced upper saline plume (USP)
may become unstable in the form of moving salt fingers under certain hydrogeological …

Assessment of groundwater-driven dissolved nutrient inputs to coastal wetlands associated with marsh-coastal lagoons systems of the littoral of the outer Río de la …

E Carol, MJ Galliari, L Santucci, F Nuñez… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In coastal wetlands the hydrological dynamics and in particular the groundwater flows play a
critical role in the establishment of wetlands and in the transport of salts and nutrients. The …

Salt transport under tide and evaporation in a subtropical wetland: Field monitoring and numerical simulation

Y Liu, C Zhang, X Liu, C Li… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tidal wetland ecosystems are sensitive to porewater salinity dynamics. However, it is
unclear how salts move and distribute in these wetlands, particularly how the salts …