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What is a salt marsh?

What is a salt marsh? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
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The Louisiana salt marsh is tidally flooded, and salinity ranges from 0 to 28 ppt.
Marsh vegetation consists mainly of cattail and sedges, with salt marsh cordgrass occurring along creek banks.
Estuaries and associated salt marsh communities play an important role in the functioning and integrity of the Bay of Fundy ecosystem.
A year later, he won approval in Nova Scotia to perform similar tests in a salt marsh habitat located in Petpeswick Inlet.
The trap site was situated adjacent to a large salt marsh on one side and a cattail marsh and boggy area on the other side.
To study how a salt marsh recovers on its own, this plot was oiled and left undisturbed.

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