This article discusses a new way people are determining if salt marshes are vulnerable to erosion. The system that they used creates estimates with large margins of error, meaning that this ratio can only truly be used to predict whether a marsh has enough incoming sediment to thrive or disappear. Perhaps this ratio can be used in the future to help preserve salt marshes.

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124111312.htm

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