Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes
The contribution of animal ecosystem engineers to coastal geomorphological processes is often neglected. Here, the authors combine observational, experimental and modelling work to demonstrate that ecosystem engineering by mussels is a much stronger driver of salt marsh accretion rates than expected...
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| author | Sinéad M. Crotty Daniele Pinton Alberto Canestrelli Hallie S. Fischman Collin Ortals Nicholas R. Dahl Sydney Williams Tjeerd J. Bouma Christine Angelini |
| author_facet | Sinéad M. Crotty Daniele Pinton Alberto Canestrelli Hallie S. Fischman Collin Ortals Nicholas R. Dahl Sydney Williams Tjeerd J. Bouma Christine Angelini |
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| description | The contribution of animal ecosystem engineers to coastal geomorphological processes is often neglected. Here, the authors combine observational, experimental and modelling work to demonstrate that ecosystem engineering by mussels is a much stronger driver of salt marsh accretion rates than expected. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c55f4feb4a764c6a968a051218bb58862023-03-22T11:44:00ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232023-02-0114111510.1038/s41467-023-36444-wFaunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshesSinéad M. Crotty0Daniele Pinton1Alberto Canestrelli2Hallie S. Fischman3Collin Ortals4Nicholas R. Dahl5Sydney Williams6Tjeerd J. Bouma7Christine Angelini8Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, PO Box 116580Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, PO Box 116580Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, PO Box 116580Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, PO Box 116580Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, PO Box 116580Carbon Containment Lab, School of the Environment, Yale UniversityDepartment of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, PO Box 116580Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht UniversityDepartment of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, PO Box 116580The contribution of animal ecosystem engineers to coastal geomorphological processes is often neglected. Here, the authors combine observational, experimental and modelling work to demonstrate that ecosystem engineering by mussels is a much stronger driver of salt marsh accretion rates than expected.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36444-w |
| spellingShingle | Sinéad M. Crotty Daniele Pinton Alberto Canestrelli Hallie S. Fischman Collin Ortals Nicholas R. Dahl Sydney Williams Tjeerd J. Bouma Christine Angelini Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes Nature Communications |
| title | Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes |
| title_full | Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes |
| title_fullStr | Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes |
| title_short | Faunal engineering stimulates landscape-scale accretion in southeastern US salt marshes |
| title_sort | faunal engineering stimulates landscape scale accretion in southeastern us salt marshes |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36444-w |
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