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Changes In Plant Communities Of Low-Salinity Tidal Marshes In Response To Sea-Level Riselow-Salinity Tidal Marshes In Response To Sea-Level Rise, Abbey Humphreys, Adrianna L. Gorsky, Donna M. Bilkovic, Randolph M. Chambers
Changes In Plant Communities Of Low-Salinity Tidal Marshes In Response To Sea-Level Riselow-Salinity Tidal Marshes In Response To Sea-Level Rise, Abbey Humphreys, Adrianna L. Gorsky, Donna M. Bilkovic, Randolph M. Chambers
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As sea-level rises, low-salinity tidal marshes experience greater flooding with more saline water. In the Chesapeake Bay estuary, we compared the 1980 and 2014 tidal marsh inventories (TMIs) of plant communities from James City County, Virginia, USA, with respect to the spatial distribution of two species—the invasive reed Phragmites australis and native salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora–plus overall species richness. Since the 1980 TMI, the total area of low-salinity tidal marshes in which P. australis occurred increased from 0.46 km2 to 6.30 km2 in 2014. Between TMIs, however, the total area of low-salinity marshes occupied by …