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Michael P. Weinstein
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New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, Fort Hancock, USA
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Daniel A. Kreeger
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Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA
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In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn’t take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R. A. Ragotzkie, L. R. Pomeroy, J. M. Teal, and D. C. Scott, entitled “Proceedings of the Salt Marsh Conference” held in 1958 at the Marine Institute, Sapelo Island, Ga. Now forty years later, the Sapelo Island conference has been the major intellectual impetus, and another Sea Grant Program the major backer, of another symposium, the “International Symposium: Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology”. This one re-examines the ideas of that first conference, ideas that stimulated four decades of research and led to major legislation in the United States to conserve coastal wetlands. It is dedicated, appropriately, to two then young scientists – Eugene P. Odum and John M. Teal – whose inspiration has been the starting place for a generation of coastal wetland and estuarine research. I do not mean to suggest that wetland research started at Sapelo Island. In 1899 H. C. Cowles described successional processes in Lake Michigan freshwater marsh ponds. There is a large and valuable early literature about northern bogs, most of it from Europe and the former USSR, although Eville Gorham and R. L. Lindeman made significant contributions to the American literature before 1960. V. J.
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Biogeochemical Processes
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- Lee Kerkhof, David J. Scala
Pages 443-468
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- Jelte Rozema, Peter Leendertse, Jan Bakker, Harm Van Wijnen
Pages 469-491
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Modelling Nutrient and Energy Flux
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- Peter M. Eldridge, Luis A. Cifuentes
Pages 495-513
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- Courtney T. Hackney, Lawrence B. Cahoon, Christian Preziosi, Amy Norris
Pages 543-552
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Tidal Marsh Restoration: Fact or Fiction?
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- Joy B. Zedler, Roberto Lindig-Cisneros
Pages 565-582
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- R. E. Turner, E. M. Swenson, C. S. Milan
Pages 583-595
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- Charles A. Simenstad, W. Gregory Hood, Ronald M. Thom, David A. Levy, Daniel L. Bottom
Pages 597-630
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Ecological Engineering of Restored Marshes
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- John W. Day Jr., Norbert P. Psuty, Brian C. Perez
Pages 633-659
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- Lisa A. Evin, Theresa S. Talley
Pages 661-707
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Measuring Function of Restored Tidal Marshes
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- J. C. Stevenson, J.E. Rooth, K.L. Sundberg, M.S. Kearney
Pages 709-735
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- Stephen W. Broome, Christopher B. Craft, William A. Toomey Jr.
Pages 737-747
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- K. W. Able, D. M. Nemerson, P. R. Light, R. O. Bush
Pages 749-773
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Success Criteria for Tidal Marsh Restoration
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- Michael P. Weinstein, Kurt R. Philipp, Peter Goodwin
Pages 777-804
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- Robert R. Christian, Laura E. Stasavich, Cassondra R. Thomas, Mark M. Brinson
Pages 805-825
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- Laura A. Meyerson, Kristiina A. Vogt, Randolph M. Chambers
Pages 827-844
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- Paul E. Fell, R. Scott Warren, William A. Niering
Pages 845-858
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Back Matter
Pages 859-875
Reviews
`On balance this book will be a landmark for its intended audience, North American salt marsh ecosystem ecologist and a valuable resource for students and ecologists from other disciplines interested in learning about salt marsh ecology.
...I highly recommend this book to tidal marsh scientist and graduate students because it presently provides the best and the most up to date single source of information on tidal marsh ecology.'
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
`The book contains a tremendous amount of up to date information on salt marsh ecology and its an excellent reference for those interested in ecosystem-level processes in these systems '
Ecological Engineering 18:399-400 (2002)
Editors and Affiliations
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New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, Fort Hancock, USA
Michael P. Weinstein
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Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA
Daniel A. Kreeger