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SALT MARSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("salt marsh" is a kind of...):
fen; fenland; marsh; marshland (low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water)
Context examples:
Traditionally, we have viewed salt marshes as resilient to nitrogen pollution, because the microbes there remove much of the nitrogen as gas, writes first author Ashley Bulseco, a postdoctoral scientist at the MBL.
(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)
Adding nutrients like nitrogen produced no change in the types of bacteria present in the salt marsh — at least, temporarily.
(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)
A new study led by scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, and Northeastern University indicates that a common pollutant of coastal waters, nitrate, stimulates the release of CO2, possibly altering the capacity of salt marshes to hold carbon over time.
(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)
Salt marshes play key roles in reducing the effects of urbanization and climate change.
(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)
Deep in the waterlogged peat of salt marshes, carbon is stored at much greater rates than in land ecosystems, serving as an offset to climate change caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) build-up in the atmosphere.
(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)
Jennifer Bowen of Northeastern University and colleagues have studied microbes in the sediments of salt marshes in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Plum Island Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in northeastern Massachusetts.
(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)
Given the extent of nitrogen loading along our coastlines, it is imperative that we better understand the resilience of salt marsh systems to nitrate, especially if we hope to rely on salt marshes and other blue carbon systems for long-term carbon storage, the authors write.
(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)
