SynthesisNature communications2024
A global meta-analysis on the drivers of salt marsh planting success and implications for ecosystem services.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A global meta-analysis on the drivers of salt marsh planting success and implications for ecosystem services.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
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- Genetic Implications of Plant Sourcing Strategies for Salt Marsh Restoration.Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
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- A global dataset of soil organic carbon accumulation rate in coastal ecosystems.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Hydro-geomorphological drivers across scales shape the trajectory of coastal wetland restoration.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The contribution of increased global soil salinity to changes in inorganic carbon.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Environmental stress and plant-plant interactions jointly shape intertidal cordgrass traits across broad spatial scales.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- The tidal wetland restoration goldmine: Prospects and pitfalls of mining confined disposal facilities.Cambridge prisms. Coastal futures · 2026Review
- Unveiling the Role of Wetland Strategies in Antibiotic Risk Reduction across China by Machine Learning.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Sediment stability is optimized by manipulating planting design during coastal marsh establishment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Plant species, inundation, and sediment grain size control the development of sediment stability in tidal marshes.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Unfriendly neighbors: When facilitation does not contribute to restoration success in tidal marsh.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
Planting has been widely adopted to battle the loss of salt marshes and to establish living shorelines. However, the drivers of success in salt marsh planting and their ecological effects are poorly understood at the global scale. Here, we assemble a global database, encompassing 22,074 observations reported in 210 studies, to examine the drivers and impacts of salt marsh planting. We show that, on average, 53% of plantings survived globally, and plant survival and growth can be enhanced by careful design of sites, species selection, and novel planted technologies. Planting enhances shoreline protection, primary productivity, soil carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and fishery production (effect sizes = 0.61, 1.55, 0.21, 0.10 and 1.01, respectively), compared with degraded wetlands. However, the ecosystem services of planted marshes, except for shoreline protection, have not yet fully recovered compared with natural wetlands (effect size = -0.25, 95% CI -0.29, -0.22). Fortunately, the levels of most ecological functions related to climate change mitigation and biodiversity increase with plantation age when compared with natural wetlands, and achieve equivalence to natural wetlands after 5-25 years. Overall, our results suggest that salt marsh planting could be used as a strategy to enhance shoreline protection, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration.
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