Salt marshes are highly productive intertidal wetlands providing important ecological
services for maintaining coastal biodiversity, buffering against oceanic storms, and acting as …

Coastal marshes are considered to be among the most valuable and vulnerable ecosystems
on Earth, where the imminent loss of ecosystem services is a feared consequence of sea …

Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Salt marshes are dynamic systems able to laterally expand, contract, and vertically accrete
in response to sea level rise. Here, we present the grand challenges that need to be …

Salt marshes are important coastal habitats and provide ecosystem services to surrounding
communities. They are, however, threatened by accelerating sea-level rise and sediment …

For more than a century, coastal wetlands have been recognized for their ability to stabilize
shorelines and protect coastal communities. However, this paradigm has recently been …

Coastal wetlands such as mangrove forests and saltmarshes provide a range of important
benefits to people, broadly defined as ecosystem services. These include provisioning …

Coastal wetlands mainly include ecosystems of mangroves, coral reefs, salt marsh, and sea
grass beds. As the buffer zone between land and sea, they are frequently threatened from …

UK estuarine environments are regulated by inter-acting physical processes, including tidal,
wave, surge, river discharge and sediment supply. They regulate the fluxes of nutrients …

Salt marshes are delicate landforms at the boundary between the sea and land. These
ecosystems support a diverse biota that modifies the erosive characteristics of the substrate …