Salt marsh definition

Salt marsh means areas regularly or irregularly inundated by salt water through either natural or artificial water courses and where one or more of the following species predominate: smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), salt meadow grass (Spartina patens), spike grass (Distichlis spicata), black rush (Juncus gerardi), saltwort (Salicornia spp.), sea lavender (Limonium carolinianum), saltmarsh bulrush (Scirpus spp.), high tide bush (Iva frutescens). Saltmarsh includes both high saltmarsh and low saltmarsh defined as follows:
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Salt marsh means a coastal wetland that extends landward up to the highest Spring Tide line of the year, and is characterized by a plant community consisting of, but not limited to, 40% or more of any of the following species: Salt Meadow Cord Grass (Spartina patens); Salt Marsh Cord Grass (Spartina alterniflora); Spike Grass (Distichlis spicata); Sea Lavender (Limonium nashii); Seaside Plantago (Plantago juncoides); Aster (Aster subulatus);
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Salt marsh means the area defined as zone FS1 – Foreshore in the Zoning Regulation
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Examples of Salt marsh in a sentence

  • Salt marsh cord grass and underlying peat are resistant to erosion and dissipate wave energy, thereby providing a buffer that reduces wave damage.

  • Salt marsh plants and substrate remove pollutants from surrounding waters.

  • Salt marsh loss in Jamaica Bay and its relationship to vertical accretion, human impacts and sediment chemistry.

  • Salt marsh vegetation frequently fringes the mudflats and this provides important high tide roost areas for the wintering birds.

  • Salt marsh wetlands serve as habitat for early life history stages of many fish species, as well as shellfish, crabs, and shrimp, which use the physical structure of the marsh grasses as refuge from predators (Tyrrell 2005).

  • Salt marsh: Areas of coastal wetland (most often along coastal bays) that support salt tolerant species, and where at average high tide during the growing season, the soil is irregularly inundated by tidal waters.

  • Salt marsh management is increasingly being incorporated into a ‘natural infrastructure’ approach to coastal resiliency; in terms of sustaining the marsh ecosystem services described above and for protecting adjacent built infrastructure (Gedan et al., 2011, Sutton‐Grier et al., 2015).

  • Salt marsh growth and Flandrian sea level: implication of a simulation model for Flandrian coastal stratigraphy and peat-based sea-level curves.

  • Torres R., Fagherazzi S., vanProosdij D., and Hopkinson C., Salt marsh geomorphology: Physical and ecological effects on landform Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 69(3-4), 309-310, 2006 22.

  • Salt marsh substrates consist of nearly level poorly drained, bluish- gray, clayey tidal sediment.


More Definitions of Salt marsh

Salt marsh means the “unidentified beneficiary” trust referred to by Paul Hansmeier in his deposition on behalf of AF Holdings.
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Salt marsh means areas regularly or irregularly inundated by salt water through either natural or artificial water courses and where one or more of the following species predominate: smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), salt meadow grass (Spartina patens), spike grass (Distichlis spicata), black rush (Juncus gerardi), saltwort (Salicornia spp.), sea lavender (Limonium carolinianum), saltmarsh bulrush (Scirpus spp.), high tide
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Salt marsh means a coastal wetland that extends landward up to the highest Spring Tide line of the year, and is characterized by a plant community consisting of, but not limited to, 40% or more of any of the following species: Salt Meadow Cord Grass (Spartina patens); Salt Marsh Cord Grass (Spartina alterniflora); Spike Grass (Distichlis spicata); Sea Lavender (Limonium nashii); Seaside Plantago (Plantago juncoides); Aster (Aster subulatus); Sea-Blite (Suaeda maritima); Black-grass (Juncus gerardi); Samphire (Salicornia europaea); Glasswort (S. bigelovii); Reed (Phragmites communis); Saltmarsh Bulrush (Scirpus robustus); or Cattails (Typha spp.).
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Salt marsh means areas regularly or irregularly inundated by salt
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