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Document: Ecosystem development after mangrove wetland creation: plant–soil change across a 20-year chronosequence (Doc-97)

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Authors
Osland, M. J., Spivak, A. C., Nestlerode, J. A., Lessmann, J. M., Almario, A. E., Heitmuller, P. T., Russell, M. J., Krauss, K. W., Alvarez, F., Dantin, D. D., Harvey, J. E., From, A. S., Cormier, N. and Stagg, C.L.
Year
2012
Title
Ecosystem development after mangrove wetland creation: plant–soil change across a 20-year chronosequence
Document Type
Journal Article
Journal
Ecosystems
Volume
15
Issue
5
Pages
848-866
Abstract
Mangrove wetland restoration and creation efforts are increasingly proposed as mechanisms to compensate for mangrove wetland losses. However, ecosystem development and functional equivalence in restored and created mangrove wetlands are poorly understood. We compared a 20-year chronosequence of created tidal wetland sites in Tampa Bay, Florida (USA) to natural reference mangrove wetlands. Across the chronosequence, our sites represent the succession from salt marsh to mangrove forest communities. Our results identify important soil and plant structural differences between the created and natural reference wetland sites; however, they also depict a positive developmental trajectory for the created wetland sites that reflects tightly coupled plant-soil development. Because upland soils and/or dredge spoils were used to create the new mangrove habitats, the soils at younger created sites and at lower depths (10–30 cm) had higher bulk densities, higher sand content, lower soil organic matter (SOM), lower total carbon (TC), and lower total nitrogen (TN) than did natural reference wetland soils. However, in the upper soil layer (0–10 cm), SOM, TC, and TN increased with created wetland site age simultaneously
URL Exit
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-012-9551-1
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