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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Sea-level rise and the emergence of a keystone grazer alter the geomorphic evolution and ecology of southeast US salt marshes.

Sinéad M Crotty, Collin Ortals, Thomas M Pettengill, Luming Shi, Maitane Olabarrieta, Matthew A Joyce, Andrew H Altieri, Elise Morrison, Thomas S Bianchi, Christopher Craft and 2 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Early warning signs of salt marsh drowning indicated by widespread vulnerability from declining belowground plant biomass.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  11. Causal relationships among sea level rise, marsh crab activity, and salt marsh geomorphology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Sinéad M CrottyDepartment of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; sinead.crotty@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2689-9395
Collin OrtalsDepartment of Coastal Engineering, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
Thomas M PettengillDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.ORCID 0000-0003-0653-7899
Luming ShiDepartment of Coastal Engineering, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.ORCID 0000-0002-1824-1991
Maitane OlabarrietaDepartment of Coastal Engineering, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
Matthew A JoyceDepartment of Biosciences, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA28PP, United Kingdom.
Andrew H AltieriDepartment of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
Elise MorrisonDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
Thomas S BianchiDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.ORCID 0000-0002-3068-2933
Christopher CraftSchool of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405.
Mark D BertnessDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.
Christine AngeliniDepartment of Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.ORCID 0000-0002-6669-5269
University of Florida · USBrown University · USIndiana University Bloomington · USSwansea University · GBYale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Keystone species have large ecological effects relative to their abundance and have been identified in many ecosystems. However, global change is pervasively altering environmental conditions, potentially elevating new species to keystone roles. Here, we reveal that a historically innocuous grazer-the marsh crab

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