`Nature management of coastal salt marshes : interactions between anthropogenic influences and natural dynamics

Coastal salt marshes are valued as important habitats for their characteristic plant and animal life. This thesis embraces different, but related, aspects of salt-marsh development as affected by management for nature conservation. These aspects include sediment accretion, vegetation development and succession as affected by marsh drainage and livestock grazing, the impact of natural herbivores on vegetation, and the role that salt marshes may play as a habitat for herbivorous waterfowl and breeding birds. The study focuses on salt marshes on the mainland coast of the Wadden Sea. The great majority of these salt marshes developed as a result of human activities, and are, therefore, in this sense man-made or artificial. ...


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