Section I: Mechanisms in Functioning of Salt-Marsh Ecosystems 1. Introduction 2. Salt-Marsh Biodiversity 3. Salt Marshes in the World 4. Biodiversity 5. Salt-Marsh Types in the Wadden Sea 6. Diachronic Development of Salt Marshes and their Position in a Landscape Triangle 7. Biogeomorphology of Salt Marshes 8.
Back-Barrier Salt Marshes 9. Foreland Salt Marshes 10. Interaction Between Sediment Input, Surface Elevation Change and Plants 11. Zonation and Succession 12. Dispersal of Seeds in Relation to the Established Vegetation 13. Soil Conditions, Nutrients, and Succession 14. Elytrigia ahterica and succession 15. Elevation, Salinity, and Precipitation 16.
Invertebrate Animals and Succession 17. Geese, hare and succession 18. Foraging of geese 19. Hare retard succession 20. Food webs and succession Section II: Effects of Management on Mechanisms Functioning in Salt-Marsh Ecosystems 21. Introduction 22. Factors affecting accretion and surface elevation change 23. Effects on surface-elevation change 24.
Effects on soil compaction 25. Effects on mineralization 26. Effects on moisture conditions 27. Grazing intensity and structure of the vegetation 28. Forage quality affecting structure of the vegetation 29. Effects on intermediate-sized herbivores and food webs 30. Grazing, mowing and plants Section III: Management for Biodiversity and Coastal Protection 31. Introduction 32.
To Graze or Not to Graze? Cessation of Livestock Grazing: Effects on Plants 33. To Graze or Not to Graze? Renewed Grazing 34. Grazing with Different Stocking Densities: Effects on Plants 35. What Regime Harbors Highest Plant Species Richness? 36. Grazing Effects on Invertebrate Animals 37. Effects of Livestock Grazing on Geese, Waders and Passerines 38. Effects of Grazing on Vegetation and Invertebrates in Foreland Salt Marsh of Leybucht 39. Effects of Grazing on Communities in Foreland Salt Marsh of Hamburger Hallig 40.
Effects of Grazing on Communities in Foreland Salt Marsh of Noord-Friesland Buitendijks 41. Sea-Level Rise and Vertical Accretion 42. Sea-Level Rise and Horizontal Accretion (Coastal Realignment) in Noord-Friesland Buitendijks 43. Implications for Management.