A fertilized plot at the Great Sippewisset Salt Marsh clearly shows how environmental changes can result in changes in vetegation. Click for full size image.

Long Term Research in Environmental Biology:

Long-term changes in experimental salt marsh plots: Effects of chronic eutrophication and sea level rise

Field plots in Great Sippewissett salt marsh have been continuously studied since 1970. These plots have provided evidence for many advances in our understanding of the ecology of salt marshes. In particular, we have a continued record of vegetation change in the plots. We plan further field work to synthesize the data record, and to obtain continuing data to examine the separate and joint effects on salt marsh vegetation of two powerful global driving variables, increasing eutrophication, and increasing sea level rise.


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