Controls on resilience and stability in a sediment-subsidized salt marsh.

@article{Stagg2011ControlsOR,
  title={Controls on resilience and stability in a sediment-subsidized salt marsh.},
  author={Camille L. Stagg and Irving A. Mendelssohn},
  journal={Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America},
  year={2011},
  volume={21 5},
  pages={
          1731-44
        }
}
  • C. Stagg, I. Mendelssohn
  • Published 1 July 2011
  • Environmental Science
  • Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
Although the concept of self-design is frequently employed in restoration, reestablishment of primary physical drivers does not always result in a restored ecosystem having the desired ecological functions that support system resilience and stability. We investigated the use of a primary environmental driver in coastal salt marshes, sediment availability, as a means of promoting the resilience and stability of submerging deltaic salt marshes, which are rapidly subsiding due to natural and human… 
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