ArticleEcology letters2014
Experimental predator removal causes rapid salt marsh die-off.
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- Do predators have a role to play in wetland ecosystem functioning? An experimental study in New England salt marshes.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Overwintering tropical herbivores accelerate detritus production on temperate reefs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Epibenthic predators control mobile macrofauna associated with a foundation species in a subarctic subtidal community.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Heterogeneity of ecological patterns, processes, and funding of marine manipulative field experiments conducted in Southeastern Pacific coastal ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2018Review
- A natural history model of New England salt marsh die-off.Oecologia · 2018Review
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- Interactions among salt marsh plants vary geographically but not latitudinally along the California coast.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Multiple stressors and the potential for synergistic loss of New England salt marshes.PloS one · 2017Article
- Consumer trait variation influences tritrophic interactions in salt marsh communities.Ecology and evolution · 2015Article
- Indirect human impacts turn off reciprocal feedbacks and decrease ecosystem resilience.Oecologia · 2015Article
- Bored to Death: Community-Wide Effect of Predation on a Foundation Species in a Low-Disturbance Arctic Subtidal System.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Salt marsh habitat loss to vegetation die-offs has accelerated throughout the western Atlantic in the last four decades. Recent studies have suggested that eutrophication, pollution and/or disease may contribute to the loss of marsh habitat. In light of recent evidence that predators are important determinants of marsh health in New England, we performed a total predator exclusion experiment. Here, we provide the first experimental evidence that predator depletion can cause salt marsh die-off by releasing the herbivorous crab Sesarma reticulatum from predator control. Excluding predators from a marsh ecosystem for a single growing season resulted in a >100% increase in herbivory and a >150% increase in unvegetated bare space compared to plots with predators. Our results confirm that marshes in this region face multiple, potentially synergistic threats.
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