There has been little research examining the soil seed banks of degraded floodplain wetlands and their contribution to wetland rehabilitation in Australia. Our aim was to assess the establishment of ...

For wetland plants, sea-level rise stamps out benefits of higher CO2 Beneficial effects of rising CO2 for plants disappear under flooding, 33-year field experiment reveals Date: May 18, 2022 Source: ...

Improving ecosystems with aquatic plants Study shows how to grow aquatic plants in large-scale plant production systems Date: February 27, 2019 Source: American Society for Horticultural Science ...

Through the Coastal Plant Restoration project, scientists at the Salk Institute in La Jolla are taking a new approach and studying the genetic makeup of wetland plants to fight climate change.

Under elevated carbon dioxide levels, wetland plants can absorb up to 32 percent more carbon than they do at current levels, according to a 19-year study published in Global Change Biology from the ...