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United Kingdom , Celtic Sea , Oceans General , University Coastal , University Of Plymouth , United Kingdom Research , Sciences Research Council , Sediment Transport , Physical Sciences Research Council ,

Top-predator recovery abates geomorphic decline of a coastal ecosystem

The recovery of top predators is thought to have cascading effects on vegetated ecosystems and their geomorphology1,2, but the evidence for this remains correlational and intensely debated3,4. Here we combine observational and experimental data to reveal that recolonization of sea otters in a US estuary generates a trophic cascade that facilitates coastal wetland plant biomass and suppresses the erosion of marsh edges—a process that otherwise leads to the severe loss of habitats and ecosystem services5,6. Monitoring of the Elkhorn Slough estuary over several decades suggested top-down control in the system, because the erosion of salt marsh edges has generally slowed with increasing sea otter abundance, despite the consistently increasing physical stress in the system (that is, nutrient loading, sea-level rise and tidal scour7–9). Predator-exclusion experiments in five marsh creeks revealed that sea otters suppress the abundance of burrowing crabs, a top-d ....

United States , Elkhorn Slough , Sea Otter Enhydra , Sea Otter , Rr Core Team , Yellowstone National Park , Wildlife Service , Environmental Systems Research Institute , Elkhorn Slough Foundation , Human Impacts , Salt Marshes , Global Perspective , California Press , New England , Coastal Zones , Environmental Changes , Atlantic Sarcocornia Dominated , California Estuary , Marsh Conservation , Enhancement Opportunities , Around Elkhorn Slough , Sea Level , Elkhorn Slough Technical Report Series , Tidal Scour , Sediment Transport , San Jos ,

"Controls on sediment residence times in an Alpine river catchment infe" by Maude Thollon, Anthony Dosseto et al.

Quantifying the timescale of sedimentary processes in river basins, such as erosion, transport and deposition, and their relationships with geomorphic parameters is important in the context of ongoing climate change. In this study, we combine uranium activity ratios (234U/238U) for fine-grained (<63 >μm) fluvial sediments from the Var River basin (Southern French Alps) and inferred sediment residence times, to catchment-scale spatial analysis of geomorphic parameters with the aim to investigate the factors that influence the timescale of hillslope storage and alluvial transport. Our results show that the U isotope composition of sediments and inferred sediment residence time are mostly controlled by geomorphic parameters such as catchment elevation, slope and curvature, rather than catchment lithology. We show that sediment residence times are shorter in steep, high elevation terranes, but markedly increase wherever catchment-averaged slopes <30°, reflecting the transition f ....

Var River , Southern French Alps , Ediment Residence Time , Sediment Transport , Uranium Isotopes , Ibar River ,