Salt marshes in locations featuring higher elevations and greater water inundation better facilitate the growth of cordgrass. "What's happening is that the crabs are lowering the elevation of the ...

In this study, they are experimentally warming sections of salt marsh smooth cordgrass using miniature ‘greenhouses’ to simulate future temperatures and measuring changes in plant growth ...

“The cordgrass that’s being destroyed here is the foundation species that builds salt marshes,” explains marine ecologist Mark Bertness of Brown University. With support from the National ...

A mosquito ditch draining a small pond in a Cape Cod salt marsh, at a healthy site in ... on both sides by Spartina alterniflora. This tall cordgrass traps sediment and builds new habitat, keeping ...