North Inlet marsh

The difference the field methodology makes to the estimation of the nutrient flux between a saltmarsh and coastal water can be illustrated using studies conducted on North Inlet marsh. South Carolina. Wolaver Spurrier (1988), used the flume technique to estimate the budget for a whole marsh. They concluded that North Inlet marsh imported both phosphate and particulate phosphorus. However, an earlier direct tidal... 

Figure 9.49 Syringyl-to-vanillyl (S/V) and cinnamyl-to-vanillyl (C/V) ratios in soils and sediment samples collected from a forest-brackish marsh-salt gradient in a southeastern U.S. estuary (North Inlet, USA). (Modified from Gorii and Thomas, 2000.)...

Gardner, L.R., Wolaver, T.G., and Mitchell, M. (1988) Spatial variations in the sulfur chemistry of salt marsh sediments at North Inlet, South Carolina. J. Mar. Res. 46, 815-836. 

Table 22.3 Estimated net annual nitrogen exchange (g N year" ) during inundation and drainage of the vegetated marsh at North Inlet, SC. PN and DON represent particulate and dissolved organic nitrogen.

Gardner, L. R., and Reeves, H. (2002). Seasonal patterns in the soil water balance of a Spartina marsh site at North Inlet, South Carolina, USA. Wetlands 22, 467—477. 

The flume technique (c) has been used by Wolaver and his colleagues to measure marsh surface processes on the marshes of North Inlet, South Carolina, USA. It can only be used for tides that are large enough... 

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