Marsh monitoring at the Reserve

The NERRs Sentinel Site Program is a system wide effort to understand the effects of changing water levels and tidal dynamics on the composition and distribution of marsh plant communities.  Changes in water level can be associated with increasing storm frequency and intensity, local changes in marsh elevation due to subsidence, and even sea level rise related to climate change.  Predicted increases in sea level will lead to more frequent and longer periods of marsh inundation which could eventually result in the conversion of marsh […]