Sentences with phrase «important coastal marsh»
«This grant has made it possible for us to restore important coastal marsh habitat, which faces a number of major threats, including invasive species and climate change.»
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By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.
In addition to its importance in the water cycle, as a potentially exploitable water resource and a source of water for brackish coastal environments such as marshes and coastal lagoons, it also can serve as an important source of dissolved chemical compounds such as nutrients and trace and toxic metals.
Mangroves, seagrasses and salt marsh are important coastal vegetation types in tropical and temperate environments respectively.
JUSTIFICATION The site is also important for salt marsh, mangrove, mixed mangrove formations and coastal beach scrubs, which harbour many Yucatan endemics.
``... important fluctuations in the extent of the salt - marsh in the coastal Tavoliere plain are related to variations of solar activity.»