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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Early warning signs of salt marsh drowning indicated by widespread vulnerability from declining belowground plant biomass.

Kyle D Runion, Merryl Alber, Deepak R Mishra, Mark A Lever, Christine M Hladik, Jessica L O'Connell

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kyle D RunionDepartment of Marine Science, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX 78373.ORCID 0000-0002-2582-1310
Merryl AlberDepartment of Marine Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.ORCID 0000-0002-9467-4449
Deepak R MishraDepartment of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.ORCID 0000-0001-8192-7681
Mark A LeverDepartment of Marine Science, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX 78373.ORCID 0000-0002-2046-8028
Christine M HladikSchool of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Geosciences Program, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460.ORCID 0000-0002-0265-6412
Jessica L O'ConnellDepartment of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.

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DOC | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) NA22NOS4200060NASA (NASA) 80NSSC23K0300NSF (NSF) OCE-1832178
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Abstract

Salt marshes provide valuable ecosystem services but are vulnerable to drowning with accelerated sea-level rise (SLR). Marsh belowground biomass (BGB) production helps avoid drowning by building marsh surface elevation. Reductions in BGB can serve as an early warning sign of marsh deterioration, as they often precede decreases in aboveground biomass (AGB). However, landscape-scale BGB assessments to predict broad trends in marsh deterioration have not been previously available. We applied the Belowground Ecosystem Resiliency Model (BERM) to assess standing stocks and trends in both BGB and AGB over the past decade (2014-2023) across US Georgia coast

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