The effects of breakwaters on salt marsh nitrogen cycling in Mobile Bay, AL

Published: 18 May 2026| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/5gjxdnd46p.1
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Adam Siders

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Sediment cores were collected in salt marshes protected by breakwaters of two different ages (referred to as old and new breakwaters) along with a control site without breakwaters. Cores were collected in both salt marsh and mudflat locations to separate potential biological feedbacks due to marsh vegetation from the physical effects of breakwaters. We also collected both pore and surface water samples during sampling efforts. We brought sediment cores to the lab and conducted incubations to measure denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) using the isotope pairing technique. We conducted the study in both summer and winter sampling periods.

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Coastal Restoration, Wetland Ecology

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  • University of Alabama
    University of Alabama System
    Tuscaloosa
    Grant ID: College Academy of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity, Commitment #: 406

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