Concepts and controversies in tidal marsh ecology
Weinstein MP and Kreeger DA (ed). 2000. Concepts and controversies in tidal marsh ecology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, Netherlands
The chapters of this volume are all major syntheses, not simply literature reviews, of the current understanding of salt marsh ecology. Many chapters address the two major paradigms that arose from the first salt marsh conference: the Detrital paradigm, which states that the base of the food web is marsh macrophyte production that is microbially decomposed before it becomes available as food to invertebrate and vertebrate organisms; the Outwelling paradigm, which says that salt marshes export surplus production to coastal waters, thus supplementing the coastal phytoplankton food source.
- Type
- Book
- Date of Issue
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Units
- GATE , NRSS
- Keywords
- Salt marsh ecology, Salt Marshes, tidal marsh ecology, tidal marshes