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Settling the Debate: How does nutrient enrichment affect salt marsh resilience to sea level rise?

Author(s): Dylan Stephens, Madison Guyton

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This is a lesson aimed at Environmental Studies students from High School and up, we hope that students will be able to further their understanding of the ecological impact of humans, as well as become confident in using the fundamental tools of the…

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This is a lesson aimed at Environmental Studies students from High School and up, we hope that students will be able to further their understanding of the ecological impact of humans, as well as become confident in using the fundamental tools of the Tidyverse R package. This lesson requires a basic understanding of wetlands, basic ecology, and the ability to load packages and data into an R project

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Version 1.0 - published on 17 Oct 2024 doi:10.25334/PZ77-HD58 - cite this

Keywords

  1. statistics
  2. R
  3. ecology
  4. tool:rstudio
  5. ANCOVA
  6. wetlands
  7. salt marshes
  8. stable isotopes
  9. Anthropogenic Impacts
  10. Tidal Wetland
  11. Wetland Ecology
  12. accretion
  13. greenhouse gas effect

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This lesson works to educate students about sea level rise effects on salt marsh resilience through the use of an environmental lesson and an analysis of covariance in an R markdown file. Students will learn about sea level rise, the greenhouse gas effect, thermal expansion, inundation, accretion, and wastewater effects on salt marshes. We discuss marsh elevation, tidal range, and stable isotopes in the context of anthropogenic stressors on salt marshes. This is done through the help of the focal paper “Are Tidal Salt Marshes Exposed to Nutrient Pollution more Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise?” by Johannes R. Krause, Elizabeth Burke Watson, Cathleen Wigans, and Nicole Maher. We adapt the data used by the researchers to provide a lesson on an analysis of covariance. We hope to educate students about the effects of anthropogenic stressors, in our case wastewater, on a salt marshes ability to battle an inevitable sea level rise.

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Started Qubes Project 5/6/24

 

 

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