Fig 1.
Study sites in the Great Marsh, Massachusetts: Essex Bay (EB), Jeffrey’s Neck (JN), and Plum Island (PI).
Fig 2.
Sediment deposition on the Great Marsh, MA following winter storm Greyson.
(a) Extensive fields of layered ice and sediment on the marsh platform. (b) Bivalve shells in the deposited layer of sediment.
Fig 3.
Sediment area supervised classification map.
(a) Essex Bay (b) Jefferies Neck (c) Plum Island.
Table 1.
Comparison of area and sediment characteristics by site.
Fig 4.
(a) Sediment thickness at each site in winter and summer. (b) The change in thickness of deposited sediment between winter and summer of 2018 for each thickness category. Different letters denote significant differences among thickness categories (Tukey’s HSD). Error bars show standard error.
Table 2.
Pore water characteristics at each site.
Means are shown with standard error in parenthesis.
Fig 5.
Cover (%) of marsh vegetation for sediment thickness categories separated by habitat type.
Different letters denote significant differences among thickness categories (Tukey’s HSD). Error bars show standard error.