Spartina alterniflora

CS2 and COS occur in the atmosphere in significant amounts - CS2, 3.8-4.7 Tg S yr-1, COS, 2.7-3.5 Tg S yr-1 one-fifth to one quarter of these amounts are probably anthropogenic. Biogenic CS2 mainly originates in marine settings - anaerobic sediments (bacteria) and salt marshes with a role for Spartina alterniflora.6,10 Some terrestrial plants produce CS2 and tree roots are another source, usually after cutting or wetting. A tree of central America, Stryphnodendron excelsum. can be detected by its CS2 odor.10... 

Lytle, J.S. and T.F. Lytle. 1998. Atrazine effects on estuarine macrophytes Spartina alterniflora and Juncus roemerainus. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 17 1972-1978. 

Estuarine samples of the AAS marsh grass Spartina alterniflora and eelgrass... 

Stuart, V., Head, E.3.H. and Mann, K.H., in press. Relative contributions of benthic diatoms and Spartina alterniflora (Loisel) detritus to the nutrition of the amphipod Corophium volutator (Pallas) on a Bay of Fundy mud flat. 3. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 

Moran, M. A., and R. E. Hodson. 1990. Contributions of degrading Spartina alterniflora lignocellulose to the dissolved organic carbon pool of a salt marsh. Marine Ecology... 

Currin, C. A., S. Y. Newell, and H. W. Paerl. 1995. The role of standing dead Spartina alterniflora and benthic microalgae in salt marsh food webs Considerations based on multiple stable isotope analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 121 99-116. 

White, D. S., and B. L. Howes. 1994. Nitrogen incorporation into decomposing litter of Spartina alterniflora. Limnology and Oceanography 39 133-139. 

Windham, L., J.S. Weis, and P. Weis. 2003. Uptake and distribution of metals in two dominant salt marsh macrophytes, Spartina alterniflora (cordgrass) and Phragmites australis (common reed). Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 56 63-72. 

Cordgrass present throughout the marsh is Spartina alterniflora. Two forms of this plant are identifiable. The tall form occurs along the banks of the tidal creek and is tolerant of normal marine salinities the short form is tolerant of higher salinities and occurs throughout the low marsh where such water may be encountered. 

Bertness, M.D. (1985) Fiddler crab regulation of Spartina alterniflora production on a New England salt-marsh. Ecology 66, 1042-1055. 

Steudler, P.A., and Peterson, B.J. (1985) Annual cycle of gaseous sulfur emissions from a New England Spartina alterniflora marsh. Atmos. Environ. 19, 1411-1416. 

Grafa, M. A., Newell, S. Y. Kneib, R. T. (2000). Grazing rates of organic matter and living fungal biomass of decaying Spartina alterniflora by three species of salt-marsh invertebrates. Marine Biology, 136, 281-9. 

Gessner, R. V. (1977). Seasonal occurrence and distribution of fungi associated with Spartina alterniflora from a Rhode Island estuary. Mycologia, 69, 477-91. 

Mendelssohn, I. A. Morris, J. T. (2000). Eco-physiological controls on the primary productivity of Spartina alterniflora. In Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology, ed. M. P. Weinstein D. A. Kreeger. Dortrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 59-80. 

Table 22.6 Nitrogen fluxes associated with growth and death of marsh plants short and medium forms of Spartina alterniflora and Zizaniopis miliacea (White and Howes, 1994c Hopkinson and Schubauer, 1984)...

Hopkinson, C. S., and Schubauer, J. P. (1984). Static and dynamic aspects of nitrogen cychngin the salt marsh graminoid Spartina alterniflora. Ecology 65, 961—969. 

Currin C. A., Joye S. B., and Paerl H. W. (1996) Diel rates of N2-fixation and denitrification in a transplanted Spartina alterniflora marsh implications for N-flux dynamics. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 42, 597—616. 

Lovell C. R., Friez M. J., Longshore J. W., and Bagwell C. E. (2001) Recovery and phylogenetic analysis of nifH sequences from diazotrophic bacteria associated with dead aboveground biomass of Spartina alterniflora. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67, 5308-5314. 

Rooney-Varga J. N., Devereux R., Evans R. S., and Hines M. E. (1997) Seasonal changes in the relative abundance of uncultivated sulfate-reducing bacteria in a salt marsh sediment and rhizosphere of Spartina alterniflora. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63, 3895—3901. 

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