scholarly journals Complexity of the flooding/drying process in an estuarine tidal-creek salt-marsh system: An application of FVCOM

2008 ◽  
Vol 113 (C7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Changsheng Chen ◽  
Jianhua Qi ◽  
Chunyan Li ◽  
Robert C. Beardsley ◽  
Huichan Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Tidal Creek ◽  
Drying Process

scholarly journals Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions from a Temperate Salt Marsh Tidal Creek

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branimir Trifunovic ◽  
Alma Vázquez-Lule ◽  
Margaret Capooci ◽  
Angelia Lyn Seyfferth ◽  
Carlos Moffat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Tidal Creek ◽  
Methane Emissions

Geomorphic and hydrodynamic responses in salt marsh-tidal creek systems, Jiangsu, China

1999 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 544-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaping Wang ◽  
Renshun Zhang ◽  
Shu Gao
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Tidal Creek

Sulfide Variation in the Pore and Surface Waters of Artificial Salt-Marsh Ditches and a Natural Tidal Creek

Estuaries ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge R. Rey ◽  
John Shaffer ◽  
Tim Kain ◽  
Robert Stahl ◽  
Roy Crossman
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Surface Waters ◽  
Tidal Creek

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Colonization and Survival of Juvenile Blue Crabs Callinectes sapidus in Southeastern U.S. Tidal Creeks

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Paul J. Rudershausen ◽  
Jeffery H. Merrell ◽  
Jeffrey A. Buckel
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Blue Crab ◽  
Detection Probability ◽  
Tidal Creek ◽  
Callinectes Sapidus ◽  
Blue Crabs ◽  
Tidal Creeks ◽  
Occupancy Dynamics ◽  
Factors Influencing

Tidal creeks along the southeastern U.S. and Gulf of Mexico coastlines provide nursery habitats for commercially and ecologically important nekton, including juvenile blue crabs Callinectes sapidus, a valuable and heavily landed seafood species. Instream and watershed urbanization may influence the habitat value that tidal creeks provide to blue crabs. We investigated natural and anthropogenic factors influencing juvenile blue crab occupancy dynamics in eight first-order tidal creeks in coastal North Carolina (USA). An auto-logistic hierarchical multi-season (dynamic) occupancy model with separate ecological and observation sub-models was fitted to juvenile blue crab presence/absence data collected over replicate sampling visits in multiple seasons at three fixed trapping sites in each creek. Colonization and survival are the processes operating on occupancy that are estimated with this formulation of the model. Covariates considered in the ecological sub-model included watershed imperviousness, the percent of salt marsh in each creek’s high tide area, percent salt marsh edge, site-level water depth, and site-level salinity. Temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen were covariates considered in the observation sub-model. In the ecological sub-model, watershed imperviousness was a meaningful negative covariate and site-level salinity was a positive covariate of survival probability. Imperviousness and salinity were each marginally meaningful on colonization probability. Water temperature was a positive covariate of detection probability in the observation sub-model. Mean estimated detection probability across all sites and seasons of the study was 0.186. The results suggest that development in tidal creek watersheds will impact occupancy dynamics of juvenile blue crabs. This places an emphasis on minimizing losses of natural land cover classes in tidal creek watersheds to reduce the negative impacts to populations of this important species. Future research should explore the relationship between imperviousness and salinity fluctuations in tidal creeks to better understand how changing land cover influences water chemistry and ultimately the demographics of juvenile blue crabs.

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