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Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology

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  1. Michael P. Weinstein

    1. New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, Fort Hancock, USA

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  2. Daniel A. Kreeger

    1. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Retrospective on the Salt Marsh Paradigm

    1. Tidal Marshes as Outwelling/Pulsing Systems

      • Eugene P. Odum
      Pages 3-7

    2. Salt Marsh Values: Retrospection from the end of the Century

      • John M. Teal, Brian L. Howes
      Pages 9-19

  3. Sources and Patterns of Production

    1. Role of Salt Marshes as Part of Coastal Landscapes

      • Ivan Valiela, Marci L. Cole, James Mcclelland, Jennifer Hauxwell, Just Cebrian, Samantha B. Joye
      Pages 23-36

    2. Spatial Variation in Process and Pattern in Salt Marsh Plant Communities in Eastern North America

      • Mark D. Bertness, Steven C. Pennings
      Pages 39-57

    3. Eco-Physiological Controls on the Productivity of Spartina Alterniflora Loisel

      • Irving A. Mendelssohn, James T. Morris
      Pages 59-80

    4. Community Structure and Functional Dynamics of Benthic Microalgae in Salt Marshes

      • Michael J. Sullivan, Carolyn A. Currin
      Pages 81-106

    5. Structure and Productivity of Microtidal Mediterranean Coastal Marshes

      • Carles Ibñez, Antoni Curco, John W. Day Jr., Narcis Prat
      Pages 107-136

    6. Development and Structure of Salt Marshes: Community Patterns in Time and Space

      • A.J. Davy
      Pages 137-156

  4. Fate of Production within Marsh Food Webs

    1. Microbial Secondary Production from Salt Marsh-Grass Shoots, and Its Known and Potential Fates

      • Steven Y. Newell, David Porter
      Pages 159-185

    2. Trophic Complexity Between Producers and Invertebrate Consumers in Salt Marshes

      • Daniel A. Kreeger, Roger I.E. Newell
      Pages 187-220

    3. Trophic Linkages in Marshes: Ontogenetic Changes in Diet for Young-of-the-Year Mummichog, Fundulus Heteroclitus

      • KellY J. Smith, Gary L. Taghon, Kenneth W. Able
      Pages 121-237

  5. Habitat Value: Food and/or Refuge

    1. Factors Influencing Habitat Selection in Fishes with a Review of Marsh Ecosystems

      • J. Kevin Craig, Larry B. Crowder
      Pages 241-266

    2. Salt Marsh Ecoscapes and Production Transfers by Estuarine Nekton in the Southeastern United States

      • R. T. Kneib
      Pages 267-291

    3. Salt Marsh Linkages to Productivity of Penaeid Shrimps and Blue Crabs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

      • Roger J. Zimmerman, Thomas J. Minello, Lawrence P. Rozas
      Pages 293-314

    4. Ecophysiological Determinants of Secondary Production in Salt Marshes: A Simulation Study

      • J. M. Miller, W. H. Neill, K. A. Duchon, S. W. Ross
      Pages 315-331

    5. Salt Marsh Ecosystem Support of Marine Transient Species

      • Linda A. Deegan, Jeffrey E. Hughes, Rodney A. Rountree
      Pages 333-365

  6. Biogeochemical Processes

    1. Benthic-Pelagic Coupling in Marsh-Estuarine Ecosystems

      • Richard F. Dame, Eric Koepfler, Leah Gregory
      Pages 369-390

    2. Twenty More Years of Marsh and Estuarine Flux Studies: Revisiting Nixon (1980)

      • Daniel L. Childers, John W. Day Jr., Henry N. Mckellar Jr.
      Pages 391-423

    3. The Role of Oligohaline Marshes in Estuarine Nutrient Cycling

      • Jennifer Z. Merrill, Jeffrey C. Cornwell
      Pages 425-441
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About this book

In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.

Reviews

`On balance this book will be a landmark for its intended audience, North American salt marsh ecosystem ecologist and a valuable resource for students and ecologists from other disciplines interested in learning about salt marsh ecology.
...I highly recommend this book to tidal marsh scientist and graduate students because it presently provides the best and the most up to date single source of information on tidal marsh ecology.'
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
`The book contains a tremendous amount of up to date information on salt marsh ecology and its an excellent reference for those interested in ecosystem-level processes in these systems '
Ecological Engineering 18:399-400 (2002)

Editors and Affiliations

  • New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, Fort Hancock, USA

    Michael P. Weinstein

  • Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA

    Daniel A. Kreeger

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology

  • Editors: Michael P. Weinstein, Daniel A. Kreeger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47534-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6019-3Published: 31 October 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-4080-7Published: 04 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47534-4Published: 08 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 875

  • Topics: Ecology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Plant Ecology

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