Talk:Salt marsh

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I have heard that salt marshes f eachother

are more productive than rainforests in terms of fixing CO2. Well, all wetlands are, and saltmarshes are a bit more productive than other kinds of wetlands, per acre land. 

Is it just the species photosynthetic efficiency that makes this so, or something about the ecosystem?

AS far as I know saltmarshes have extremely high productivity largely as a reusult of their tidal nature which results in nutrients being deposited in the marsh. --Philthemancunian 16:14, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] One or Two Words

Is it "salt marsh" (two words) or "saltmarsh" (one word) -- I think it should be the former, but, regardless, the word's spelling should be consistent.

--Skb8721 16:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

The single word "saltmarsh" looks weird to me also; "salt marsh" looks comfortable, so I checked with Google. "Salt marsh" (absent wikipedia) gets about 1,200,000 hits compared with 886,000 for "Saltmarsh". It appears the world agrees with us, but not overwhelmingly. -- Paleorthid 05:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Reviewing the article history, it appears that "salt marsh" has been the preferred term in the article body since the article was created. I support moving the article to salt marsh over replacing every "salt marsh" with "saltmarsh" -- Paleorthid 06:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

My own tendency is to use 'saltmarsh' (it's what I've used when mentioning the habitat on other pages), but I don't have any strong feelings about it; a small majority of the 'what links here' have 'salt marsh'. - MPF 08:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I am beginning graduate study looking at salt marshes, and all the literature i've seen (prior to looking here) has used two words instead of one. I'm not asserting I know better than others, just wanted to submit my experience.--71.235.86.7 18:28, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saltmarsh conservation and restoration

Does anyone else here think it might be a good idea to include the threats to saltmarsh such as loss due to development, eutrophication etc. Also if anyone else thinks this is a good idea it might be useful to put a bit of detail in about methods for their restoration (for example managed realignment). --Philthemancunian 16:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)