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...
Main Authors: | 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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-02-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36444-w |
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