High nutrient loads amplify carbon cycling across California and New York coastal wetlands but with ambiguous effects on marsh integrity and sustainability

Elizabeth Burke Watson; Farzana I. Rahman; Andrea Woolfolk; Robert Meyer; Nicole Maher; Cathleen Wigand; Andrew B. Gray

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273260

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High nutrient loads amplify carbon cycling across California and New York coastal wetlands but with ambiguous effects on marsh integrity and sustainability

Elizabeth Burke Watson ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: elizabeth.b.watson@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences and The Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8496-1647

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Farzana I. Rahman,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Sciences and The Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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Andrea Woolfolk,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Watsonville, California, United States of America
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Robert Meyer,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Watsonville, California, United States of America
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Nicole Maher,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Nature Conservancy in New York, Uplands Farm Sanctuary, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America
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Cathleen Wigand,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America
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Andrew B. Gray

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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High nutrient loads amplify carbon cycling across California and New York coastal wetlands but with ambiguous effects on marsh integrity and sustainability

Elizabeth Burke Watson,
Farzana I. Rahman,
Andrea Woolfolk,
Robert Meyer,
Nicole Maher,
Cathleen Wigand,
Andrew B. Gray

Published: September 9, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273260

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