5 salt marsh ecosystem services in a nutshell!

Ecosystems services (ES) are benefits provided by natural ecosystems to society. These services can come in many forms, for example wood provided by forests or oxygen to breath provided by grasses. Salt marshes are known worldwide to provide important ES related to coastal protection, nutrient removal, and CO2 sequestration (so called Blue Carbon - BC). Salt marshes in the Nordic region are, however, different than salt marshes elsewhere in the world, both in terms of the plant communities and ecological dynamics. In the NordSalt project we are studying the BC storage, biodiversity, and ecological processes in grazed and ungrazed salt marshes and meadows in the Nordic region.