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Chasing Informed Decisions: A Research Note on the Potential for Strava to Support Rural Recreation Planning

With user-generated data from social media platforms becoming more widely available to researchers, the utility of these datasets offers a valuable opportunity for recreation and tourism managers to enhance decision-making processes in their …

Putting a lake together: Integrating synthetic data and field observations to build a better food web

Food webs provide context to understand how ecological communities will respond to environmental change, but revealing their structure typically relies upon time-intensive sampling and analysis of species' diets. As a result, all food web models …

A meta-analysis reveals knowledge gaps in our understanding of the *Spartina*-*Geukensia* mutualism

The relationship between Atlantic ribbed mussels (*Geukensia demissa*) and smooth cordgrass (*Spartina alterniflora*) represents a textbook example of a facultative mutualism. It is also foundational to wetland ecosystems along the Atlantic coast of …

Loss of salt marsh plants impacts ribbed mussel (*Geukensia demissa*) size, density, and influence on sediment nitrogen cycling

The mutualism between *Spartina alterniflora* (Smooth Cordgrass) and *Geukensia demissa* (Ribbed Mussels) can increase ecosystem services, including the removal of excess nitrogen via denitrification. However, different responses of these species to …

Estuarine sediment microbiomes from a chronosequence of restored urban salt marshes

Salt marshes play an important role in the global nutrient cycle. The sediments in these systems harbor diverse and complex bacterial communities possessing metabolic capacities that provide ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling and removal. On …

Size and density of upside-down jellyfish, *Cassiopea* sp., and their impact on benthic fluxes in a Caribbean lagoon

Anthropogenic disturbances may be increasing jellyfish populations globally. Epibenthic jellyfish are ideal organisms for studying this phenomenon due to their sessile lifestyle, broad geographic distribution, and prevalence in near-shore coastal …

Marsh plants enhance coastal marsh resilience by changing sediment oxygen and sulfide concentrations in an urban, eutrophic estuary

Despite considerable efforts to restore coastal wetlands, the ecological mechanisms contributing to the success or failure of restoration are rarely assessed. Accumulation of hydrogen sulfide in sediments may accelerate rates of marsh loss in …

Ribbed mussels *Geukensia demissa* enhance nitrogen-removal services but not plant growth in restored eutrophic salt marshes

Salt marshes are decreasing worldwide. Restoration projects address marsh loss, yet it remains unclear how well restored marshes grow, expand, and function in eutrophic waters. Here, we explored how a facultative mutualism between Atlantic ribbed …

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Impact of salinity and nutrients on salt marsh stability

Belowground growth in coastal plants is critical for marsh stability and the ability of coastal wetlands to keep pace with sea‐level rise. Quantifying the effects of nutrient loading on belowground plant growth is an ongoing controversy in wetland …