Export exceeded 10 g C m−2 d−1 for another marsh unit, demonstrating that fluxes can vary substantially across salt marshes under similar conditions within the same estuary. Seasonal and annual ...

Primarily, the efforts focused on a 20-mile swath of beach and dunes in the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge Beach, hydrologic restoration of the Salt Bayou Watershed and J. D. Murphree Wildlife ...

Tidal marshes sequester carbon at a rate 10 times higher than even mature tropical rainforests. Land development has already degraded half of the world’s salt marshes.

While only 157,500 acres of those 5 million acres are tidal (tidal flats, salt marsh, brackish marsh, aquatic beds, beach bars and reefs), the state has also retained large stretches of salt marsh ...

Without restoration, the Great Marsh is projected to convert to a low marsh before 2070 and tidal flats before 2100. The Great Marsh Restoration Project aims to restore the health of depleted salt ...

And as a crowd watched from a nearby hilltop, waters poured into a former industrial salt pond, 300 acres that will slowly and steadily turn into the Bay Area's newest tidal marsh. "Nature can ...

Some salt marsh restoration projects require large capital expenditures, such as replacing culverts to improve tidal flow. Think of digging runnels as a pop-up solution. "We do this once the pools ...

The salt marshes that are vitally important in protecting shorelines from ... "The runnels help restore nitrogen removal capacity because they restore the natural tidal hydrology," says ...