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    Climate and Vegetation Change in a Coastal Marsh: Two Snapshots of Groundwater Dynamics and Tidal Flooding at Piermont Marsh, NY Spanning 20 Years

    Groundwater hydrology plays an important role in coastal marsh biogeochemical function, in part because groundwater dynamics drive the zonation of macrophyte community distribution. Changes that occur over tim...

    Sofi Courtney, Franco Montalto, Elizabeth Burke Watson in Wetlands (2023)

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    Sediment Accumulation, Elevation Change, and the Vulnerability of Tidal Marshes in the Delaware Estuary and Barnegat Bay to Accelerated Sea Level Rise

    Tidal marshes are highly valued habitats, yet are vulnerable to loss from both anthropogenic and natural disturbances including sea-level rise (SLR). Many tidal marshes have kept pace with SLR over the last ce...

    LeeAnn Haaf, Elizabeth Burke Watson, Tracy Elsey-Quirk, Kirk Raper… in Estuaries and Coasts (2022)

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    Are Tidal Salt Marshes Exposed to Nutrient Pollution more Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise?

    Over the past four decades, Long Island, NY, USA, has lost coastal wetlands at a rate of 4% per decade due to submergence. In this study, we examined relationships between the rate of tidal salt marsh loss and...

    Johannes R. Krause, Elizabeth Burke Watson, Cathleen Wigand, Nicole Maher in Wetlands (2020)

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    Development and Application of a Method to Identify Salt Marsh Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise

    Wetlands are commonly assessed for ecological condition and biological integrity using a three-tiered framework of landscape-scale assessment, rapid assessment protocols, and intensive biological and physioche...

    Marci L. Cole Ekberg, Kenneth B. Raposa, Wenley S. Ferguson… in Estuaries and Coasts (2017)

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    Wetland Loss Patterns and Inundation-Productivity Relationships Prognosticate Widespread Salt Marsh Loss for Southern New England

    Tidal salt marsh is a key defense against, yet is especially vulnerable to, the effects of accelerated sea level rise. To determine whether salt marshes in southern New England will be stable given increasing ...

    Elizabeth Burke Watson, Cathleen Wigand, Earl W. Davey… in Estuaries and Coasts (2017)

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    Late Holocene Marsh Expansion in Southern San Francisco Bay, California

    Currently, the largest tidal wetlands restoration project on the US Pacific Coast is being planned and implemented in southern San Francisco Bay; however, knowledge of baseline conditions of salt marsh extent ...

    Elizabeth Burke Watson, Roger Byrne in Estuaries and Coasts (2013)

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    Abundance and diversity of tidal marsh plants along the salinity gradient of the San Francisco Estuary: implications for global change ecology

    From 2003 through 2005, tidal marsh plant species diversity and abundance on historically surveyed vegetation transects along the salinity gradient of the San Francisco Estuary were investigated to establish e...

    Elizabeth Burke Watson, Roger Byrne in Plant Ecology (2009)

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    Changing elevation, accretion, and tidal marsh plant assemblages in a South San Francisco Bay tidal marsh

    Analyses of organic content, pollen, and the carbon-isotopic composition of a 3.5-m sediment core collected from a subsided tidal marsh located in South San Francisco Bay, California, have provided a 500-yr re...

    Elizabeth Burke Watson in Estuaries (2004)