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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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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Retrospective on the Salt Marsh Paradigm
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- John M. Teal, Brian L. Howes
Pages 9-19
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Sources and Patterns of Production
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- Ivan Valiela, Marci L. Cole, James Mcclelland, Jennifer Hauxwell, Just Cebrian, Samantha B. Joye
Pages 23-36
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- Mark D. Bertness, Steven C. Pennings
Pages 39-57
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- Irving A. Mendelssohn, James T. Morris
Pages 59-80
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- Michael J. Sullivan, Carolyn A. Currin
Pages 81-106
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- Carles Ibñez, Antoni Curco, John W. Day Jr., Narcis Prat
Pages 107-136
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Fate of Production within Marsh Food Webs
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- Steven Y. Newell, David Porter
Pages 159-185
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- Daniel A. Kreeger, Roger I.E. Newell
Pages 187-220
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- KellY J. Smith, Gary L. Taghon, Kenneth W. Able
Pages 121-237
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Habitat Value: Food and/or Refuge
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- J. Kevin Craig, Larry B. Crowder
Pages 241-266
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- Roger J. Zimmerman, Thomas J. Minello, Lawrence P. Rozas
Pages 293-314
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- J. M. Miller, W. H. Neill, K. A. Duchon, S. W. Ross
Pages 315-331
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- Linda A. Deegan, Jeffrey E. Hughes, Rodney A. Rountree
Pages 333-365
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Biogeochemical Processes
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- Richard F. Dame, Eric Koepfler, Leah Gregory
Pages 369-390
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- Daniel L. Childers, John W. Day Jr., Henry N. Mckellar Jr.
Pages 391-423
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- Jennifer Z. Merrill, Jeffrey C. Cornwell
Pages 425-441
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