RESEARCH ECOLOGIST
Email:
kthorne@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
916-502-2996
Fax:
707-562-2005
ORCID:
0000-0002-1381-0657
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The mangrove forests across the Federated States of Micronesia provide critical resources and contribute to climate resilience. Locally, mangrove forests provide habitat for fish and wildlife, timber, and other cultural resources. Mangrove forests also protect Micronesian communities from tropical cyclones and tsunamis, providing a buffer against powerful waves and winds. Mangrove forests in Micronesia can store 700–1,800 metric tons of carbon per hectare (Donato and others, 2011), contributing to the estimated 5–10 billion metric tons of carbon stored by mangroves around the world (Alongi, 2018). This carbon storage is essential for global climate resilience. Mangrove forests and the benefits these ecosystems...
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Abstract Coastal marsh within Mediterranean climate zones is exposed to episodic watershed runoff and sediment loads that occur during storm events. Simulating future marsh accretion under sea level rise calls for attention to: (a) physical processes acting over the time scale of storm events and (b) biophysical processes acting over time scales longer than storm events. Using the upper Newport Bay in Southern California as a case study, we examine the influence of event-scale processes on simulated change in marsh topography by comparing: (a) a biophysical model that integrates with an annual time step and neglects event-scale processes (BP-Annual), (b) a physical model that resolves event-scale processes but...
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This data set contains decomposition rates for litter of Salicornia pacifica, Distichlis spicata, and Deschampsia cespitosa buried at 7 tidal marsh sites in 2015. Sediment organic matter values were collected at a subset of sites. These data support the following publication: Janousek, C.N., Buffington, K.J., Guntenspergen, G.R. et al. Ecosystems (2017). doi:10.1007/s10021-017-0111-6. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-017-0111-6
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Deschampsia cespitosa,
Distichlis spicata,
Pacific coast,
Salicornia pacifica,
carbon cycling, All tags...
climate change,
decomposition,
inundation,
organic matter,
plant composition,
sea-level change,
tidal marsh, Fewer tags
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This data table contains mean decomposition rates and mean carbon:nitrogen ratios for different litter types buried in 7 marshes during 2015. Note that C:N data are repeated for low and high marsh areas at each site in the table. These data support the following publication: Janousek, C.N., Buffington, K.J., Guntenspergen, G.R. et al. Ecosystems (2017). doi:10.1007/s10021-017-0111-6. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-017-0111-6
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Deschampsia cespitosa,
Distichlis spicata,
Pacific coast,
Salicornia pacifica,
carbon cycling, All tags...
climate change,
decomposition,
inundation,
organic matter,
plant composition,
sea-level change,
tidal marsh, Fewer tags
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Accurate input data are important for making site-specific projections of tidal wetlands into the future. We developed bias-corrected digital elevation models (DEM) using the LEAN approach (LiDAR Elevation Adjustment with NDVI). LEAN DEMs were used as the initial elevation for model projections. Further, we conducted elevation and vegetation surveys across each study site to characterize elevation profiles of dominant species, which were used to inform organic productivity functions in WARMER-2.
Tags: Brackish Marsh,
Browns Island,
Emergent Tidal Marsh,
Emergent Wetland,
Petaluma marsh, All tags...
Rush Ranch,
San Francisco Bay Estuary,
biota,
climate change,
digital elevation model,
lidar,
numerical modeling,
sea-level change,
wetland, Fewer tags
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