sea-level rise
The Coastal Critical Zone: Processes that transform landscapes and fluxes between land and sea
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Sea-level rise is causing saltwater to move from coastal marshes and tidal creeks inland over forests and croplands.
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Assessing spatial distributions and vulnerability of stored soil carbon in St. Jones and Blackbird Marshes
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Delaware is home to extensive networks of tidal marshes, which provide an array of critical ecosystem services including carbon sequestration. These marshes accumulate carbon due to their relatively high plant productivity and relatively low rates of litter decomposition.
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Morphology and Tidal Inundation of Tidal Wetlands in the Delaware Estuary
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An expanse of tidal wetlands fringes the Delaware Estuary and provides Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey with abundant ecosystem services including habitat for indigenous and migrating plants and wildlife, biogeochemical cycling of nutrients, preserving water quality, flood hazard mitigation