Organic detritus marshes

Odum, E. P., and de la Cruz, A.A. (1967) Particulate organic detritus in a Georgia salt marsh-estuarine ecosystem In Estuaries (Lauff, GH., ed.), pp. 383-388, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC. 

The presence of sediments in diflubenzuron marine microcosms results in rapid removal from seawater and ultimately a reduction in mortality of larval crustaceans (Table 17.2) (Cunningham et al. 1987). But marine sediments that exceed 200 pg diflubenzuron/kg — levels normally encountered at application rates for control of salt marsh mosquitoes — could be detrimental to juvenile and adult crustaceans that consume detritus and organic matter on the surface of the marsh or at the water-sediment interface (Cunningham and Myers 1986 Cunningham et al. 1987). 

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