Mark D. Bertness

TL;DR: In this paper, an attentive observer can see the rich n ss of life during a single walk along a salt marsh, and danger lies ahead for all salt marshes, especially those along the eastern coast of North America.

TL;DR: It is revealed that a historically innocuous grazer—the marsh crab Sesarma reticulatum—is rapidly reshaping the geomorphic evolution and ecological organization of southeastern US salt marshes now burdened by rising sea levels.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the mechanistic understanding of pattern generation necessary to manage and restore specific communities in novel habitats cannot rely exclusively on results from similar systems, and it identifies a critical role for experimental ecology in the management and conservation of natural systems and the services they provide.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of climate change on S. alterniflora growth in eight salt marshes from Massachusetts to South Carolina in the US Atlantic coast.

TL;DR: It is considered that the strongly distinct, monophyletic clade Spartina should simply and efficiently be treated as the genus Spartina.