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Marsh macrophyte responses to inundation anticipate impacts of sea-level rise and indicate ongoing drowning of North Carolina marshes

Overview of attention for article published in Marine Biology, October 2012
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Title
Marsh macrophyte responses to inundation anticipate impacts of sea-level rise and indicate ongoing drowning of North Carolina marshes
Published in
Marine Biology, October 2012
DOI 10.1007/s00227-012-2076-5
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Christine M. Voss, Robert R. Christian, James T. Morris

Abstract

In situ persistence of coastal marsh habitat as sea level rises depends on whether macrophytes induce compensatory accretion of the marsh surface. Experimental planters in two North Carolina marshes served to expose two dominant macrophyte species to six different elevations spanning 0.75 m (inundation durations 0.4-99 %). Spartina alterniflora and Juncus roemerianus exhibited similar responses-with production in planters suggesting initial increases and then demonstrating subsequent steep declines with increasing inundation, conforming to a segment of the ecophysiological parabola. Projecting inundation levels experienced by macrophytes in the planters onto adjacent marsh platforms revealed that neither species occupied elevations associated with increasing production. Declining macrophyte production with rising seas reduces both bioaccumulation of roots below-ground and baffle-induced sedimentation above-ground. By occupying only descending portions of the parabola, macrophytes in central North Carolina marshes are responding to rising water levels by progressive declines in production, ultimately leading to marsh drowning.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 2%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 89 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 22%
Student > Master 18 20%
Researcher 15 16%
Other 8 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Other 17 18%
Unknown 7 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 40 43%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 25%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 9%
Engineering 4 4%
Computer Science 3 3%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 8 9%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2017.
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#7,174,562
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#1,197
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#54,986
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Outputs of similar age from Marine Biology
#28
of 57 outputs
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