Saltmarsh Conservation, Management and Restoration

Coastal wetlands of temperate eastern Australia: will Cinderella ever go to the ball?

“…French (1997) and Doody (2008) have both argued for the value of coastal wetlands in protecting against shoreline erosion in the United Kingdom. Indeed, French (1997) argued that coastal saltmarsh provides valuable ecosystem services by protecting land against erosion and that many of those benefits were lost when seawalls and other 'sea defence' structures were employed in their place.…”

“…Indeed, French (1997) argued that coastal saltmarsh provides valuable ecosystem services by protecting land against erosion and that many of those benefits were lost when seawalls and other 'sea defence' structures were employed in their place. The irony of 'protecting' hinterland by building seawalls and alienating coastal saltmarsh was explored by Doody (2008); he found that the retention of an 80-m-wide strip of coastal saltmarsh could reduce by a factor of twelve the cost of sea defences in south-east England. Two recent meta-analysis reviews (Gedan et al 2011;Shepard et al 2011) both show the value of coastal wetlands in shoreline protection.…”

Vegetation alters the effects of salinity on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration in a newly created wetland

“…Coastal wetlands, such as saltmarshes and mangroves, trap and store carbon more efficiently than terrestrial forests and grasslands and are termed as "blue carbon" (Chmura et al, 2003;Doody, 2007;Pendleton et al, 2012;Sjögersten et al, 2014). In recent decades, wetland creation in degraded areas has been common worldwide, becoming a new type of disturbance in coastal regions (Crooks et al, 2011;Konnerup et al, 2014).…”

Release and Microbial Degradation of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen from Phragmites australis and Suaeda salsa in the Wetland of the Yellow River Estuary

“…They are widely distributed along the coasts worldwide, especially in estuarine systems [1,2]. These coastal ecosystems play important roles not only as buffer zones protecting the coastal lines from tidal erosion but also as essential habitats for coastal wildlife such as fish and seabirds [3,4].…”