Inland salt marsh habitat restoration can be based on artificial flooding

Population Dynamic of the Annual Halophyte Salicornia ramosissima in Salt Pans: Towards a Sustainable Exploitation of Its Wild Populations

“…For example, plants could be harvested at the end of winter or the beginning of spring in depressed areas where plant densities would be greater than c. 15,000 plants m −2 , which would help to avoid density-dependent mortality. Concrete harvest strategies should be designed for each population of Salicornia since they inhabit different environmental conditions and show high genetic and morphological variability [54]. In this context, our results are useful for the protection, restoration and sustainable exploitation not only of coastal salt marshes, but also of inland salt marsh habitats colonized by Salicornia species [55].…”

Vegetation of temperate inland salt-marshes reflects local environmental conditions

“…Tall shoots of this species cover halophilous vegetation, which initially remain in the form of patches scattered in vast reeds, but then disappear (Bosiacka et al, 2011). Finally, it is worth emphasizing that the most important thing in effective protection is the appropriate involvement of people responsible for the protected areas, who will ensure the systematic conduct of active treatments (e.g., Lubińska-Mielińska et al, 2022). After all, there are known for years effective actions that imitate the traditional way of land use, which guarantee not only the maintenance, but also the improvement of the condition of the salt marsh vegetation (Brandes, 1999).…”

“…This vegetation frequently is characterized by species zonation defined by dominance of some species and determined mostly by salinity and tides on coastal marshes and by salinity level on inland salt marshes (Lee et al, 2016;Piernik et al, 1996;Piernik et al, 2015). The saline habitats in Europe has been studied and documented for years (e.g., Lee, 1977;Wilkoń-Michalska, 1963;Zulka et al, 1997), and this process continues to this day, because they are undeniably an important elements in our local biodiversity (Dajić-Stevanović et al, 2019;Dítě et al, 2021Dítě et al, , 2022Fantinato and Buffa, 2019;Lubińska-Mielińska et al, 2022;Piernik, 2012).…”

“…As rare and valuable habitats they have been designated to be under protection by Council of Europe Directive 92/43/ EEC (Council of Europe, 1992) and they have been included into the Natura 2000 network. Apart of protection within Natura 2000, in individual countries they are legally protected as parts of nature reserves, e.g., Valea Ilenei (Iaşi) in Romania (Grigore and Toma, 2014), Artern, Jerxheim, Barstorf in Germany (Brandes, 1999), or Owczary and Ciechocinek in Poland (Kostuch and Misztal, 2006;Lubińska-Mielińska et al, 2022). Although natural inland temperate salt marshes have been designated as priorities for the European Union and have been protected for years (Bank and Spitzenberg, 2001;Pusch, 2007), recently they have been listed as endangered in the European Red List of Habitats (Janssen et al, 2016).…”

Growth Stage-, Organ- and Time-Dependent Salt Tolerance of Halophyte Tripolium pannonicum (Jacq.) Dobrocz.

“…Enhancing ROS and/or osmolyte production and antioxidant defence mechanism improvement are the most documented examples [ 11 , 12 ]. Therefore, studies on the not well-examined endangered halophyte T. pannonicum can help to better understand the plant’s response to salinity stress and plant-environment relations, especially in the context of extreme climate change and habitat disturbances [ 13 ].…”