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  • noun Plural form of saltmarsh.

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Examples

  • This world would also rapidly be losing its ecosystem services, owing to large losses in biodiversity, forests, coastal wetlands, mangroves and saltmarshes, and terrestrial carbon stores, supported by an acidified and potentially dysfunctional marine ecosystem.

    Patrick McCully: It's the Climate, Stupid (Not the Deficit) Patrick McCully 2010

  • This world would also rapidly be losing its ecosystem services, owing to large losses in biodiversity, forests, coastal wetlands, mangroves and saltmarshes, and terrestrial carbon stores, supported by an acidified and potentially dysfunctional marine ecosystem.

    Patrick McCully: It's the Climate, Stupid (Not the Deficit) Patrick McCully 2010

  • This world would also rapidly be losing its ecosystem services, owing to large losses in biodiversity, forests, coastal wetlands, mangroves and saltmarshes, and terrestrial carbon stores, supported by an acidified and potentially dysfunctional marine ecosystem.

    Patrick McCully: Its the climate, stupid (not the deficit) Patrick McCully 2010

  • Warren added: This world would also rapidly be losing its ecosystem services, owing to large losses in biodiversity, forests, coastal wetlands, mangroves and saltmarshes and an acidified and potentially dysfunctional marine ecosystem.

    Climate change scientists warn of 4C global temperature rise Damian Carrington 2010

  • How about the Army Corps of Engineers, with their patented program of working with developers to get people to put expensive houses in floodplains and near hurricane threatened shores, plowing over saltmarshes and the like?

    Goose, Meet Gander 2007

  • The critically endangered orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) overwinters among the coastal dune vegetation and saltmarshes.

    Naracoorte woodlands 2008

  • The rail of the saltmarshes, the clapper, which is more commonly heard than seen.

    Tidal marsh 2007

  • Your report clearly indicates that inundation should have happened and yet you provide no physical evidence that it has taken place, like the growth of saltmarshes or increased coastal erosion or something.

    "But They are Very, Very Wrong" « Climate Audit 2006

  • I cannot yet move from hence as no caravan has yet arrived from the west; it is indeed expected, but so it has been for a length of time, and that very expectation prevents me from undertaking any other journey, and chains me to this town, the air of which presses more heavily upon my lungs than did the pestilential exhalations of the saltmarshes of Medina.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • * The valleys are often quiet havens for wildlife, supporting reedbeds, wet willow carr, marshes, ancient woodlands, saltmarshes and mudflats.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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