Warming experiment indicates that increasing global temperatures may not affect windows of opportunity for salt marsh seedlings
Eva Julia Marie Ostertag,
Kai Jensen,
Viktoria Unger
et al.
Abstract:With increasing global temperatures, it remains unclear, how seedling emergence and survival will be affected in highly dynamic ecosystems like salt marshes. Our study combines passive and active warming treatments with the natural inundation dynamics of salt marshes. We studied the effects of active soil and passive air warming (ambient temperature, + 1.5°C and + 3.0°C) on seedling numbers of different species in three salt marsh zones (pioneer zone, low marsh, and high marsh) and on seedling survival (lifesp… Show more
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