Talk:Salt marsh/Archive 1

One or Two Words
Is it "salt marsh" (two words) or "saltmarsh" (one word) -- I think it should be the former, but, regardless, the word's spelling should be consistent.

--Skb8721 16:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The single word "saltmarsh" looks weird to me also; "salt marsh" looks comfortable, so I checked with Google. "Salt marsh" (absent wikipedia) gets about 1,200,000 hits compared with 886,000 for "Saltmarsh". It appears the world agrees with us, but not overwhelmingly. -- Paleorthid 05:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Reviewing the article history, it appears that "salt marsh" has been the preferred term in the article body since the article was created. I support moving the article to salt marsh over replacing every "salt marsh" with "saltmarsh" -- Paleorthid 06:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * My own tendency is to use 'saltmarsh' (it's what I've used when mentioning the habitat on other pages), but I don't have any strong feelings about it; a small majority of the 'what links here' have 'salt marsh'. - MPF 08:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I am beginning graduate study looking at salt marshes, and all the literature i've seen (prior to looking here) has used two words instead of one. I'm not asserting I know better than others, just wanted to submit my experience.--71.235.86.7 18:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Saltmarsh conservation and restoration
Does anyone else here think it might be a good idea to include the threats to saltmarsh such as loss due to development, eutrophication etc. Also if anyone else thinks this is a good idea it might be useful to put a bit of detail in about methods for their restoration (for example managed realignment). --Philthemancunian 16:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Not necessarily estuary/intertidal related
I do not agree with the first sentence. Salt marshes can be found hundreds of miles from any sea. Ex. -Quivira National Wildlife Refuge. Miglewis (talk) 04:28, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Ecology
I'm interested in editing this page as part of the Wiki:Ecology project, and as an assignment for my Ecology course. I see that it's not listed as part of the Ecology project, only under the Soil and Geology Projects. However, from an ecology stand point, salt marshes are an important habitat for many species. Any thoughts or concerns about my working on this page? emambo (talk) 01:01, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This page does not seem very active so you might not get many response for the projects you mention. Once you have read the linked information in the welcome on your talk page, give it a try. Fettlemap (talk) 01:22, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

vs. rainforests
I have heard that salt marshes f eachother are more productive than rainforests in terms of fixing CO2. Well, all wetlands are, and saltmarshes are a bit more productive than other kinds of wetlands, per acre land. Is it just the species photosynthetic efficiency that makes this so, or something about the ecosystem?

AS far as I know saltmarshes have extremely high productivity largely as a reusult of their tidal nature which results in nutrients being deposited in the marsh. --Philthemancunian 16:14, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Submerging?
The article reads: "or submerging if the sedimentation rate exceeds the subsidence rate" Is this correct? It seems to me like the author may have reversed the two terms. sedimentation: the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating subsidence: The gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land Could someone explain? Thanks!
 * I agree with you. This was either unclear or incorrect. When accretion (sedimentation plus organic matter) is higher than relative sea level rise (subsidence plus change in sea level), the marsh should be emerging. When it is lower, than the marsh submerging. I did fix some of the language. We will see if it holds. Oikos6933 (talk) 00:12, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

first person
User44654 (talk) 11:58, 6 February 2019 (UTC) In the section Restoration and Management, the article says:

Once we have a better understanding of these processes and not just locally, but over a global scale, we can then suggest more sound and practical management and restoration efforts that can be used to preserve our valuable marshes and put them back to their original state.

While humans are situated along coastlines, there will always be the possibility of human-induced disturbances despite the number of restoration efforts we plan to implement. Dredging, pipelines for offshore petroleum resources, highway construction, accidental toxic spills or just plain carelessness are examples that will for some time now and into the future be the major influences of salt marsh degradation.

This has been written in the first person, which I understand is not a policy of Wikipedia. Also I suspect that it has been copy-pasted directly from the original source. Should it be changed, or can it be left as-is?


 * I have changed the wording from non-encyclopedic first person in active voice to passive voice, and also checked the text with Earwig's Copyvio Detector and it indicates no copying of text. Thanks. Carlstak (talk) 12:35, 6 February 2019 (UTC)