There is an urgent need to address coastal dynamics as a fundamental interaction between
physical and biological processes, particularly when trying to predict future biological …

Centuries of coastal development has led to the loss of saltmarsh extent worldwide. As
marshes are shrinking, scientific understanding of marsh expansion and erosion processes …

Salt marshes contribute to coastal protection by attenuating waves and reducing flow
velocities. Nevertheless, coastal salt marshes are threatened by rising sea levels. In order to …

Species across the planet are shifting or expanding their ranges because of climate change.
These are climate migrants. Although climate migrants are well documented, their impacts …

Identifying drivers of the spatial distribution of organisms is a key aim of ecology. Salt marsh
ecosystems can exhibit extreme gradients in abiotic conditions, including orders of …

Consumers can directly (eg, consumption) and indirectly (eg, trophic cascades) influence
carbon cycling in blue carbon ecosystems. Previous work found that large grazers have …

The resource‐availability hypothesis (RAH) and the intraspecific RAH (RAHintra), posit that
resources,(ie nutrients) control plant antiherbivore defenses. Both hypotheses predict that in …

It is low tide in a salt marsh. A blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, digs a shallow-water pit. It
appears that the crab has missed the outgoing tide and is waiting for the next one. But it is …

Although estimates of the area of salt marsh vary, it appears that major losses have taken
place though this century, making these wetlands one of the most threatened natural …

Ecogeomorphic theory predicts that plant-sediment feedbacks regulate carbon storage in
coastal vegetated ecosystems. Yet, grazers, which remove plant biomass and alter sediment …