ADAMS , Janine Barbara

Coastal areas host some of the planet's most productive ecosystems, providing life-sustaining ecological services and several benefits to humankind, while also being some of the most threatened areas (e.g., by globalization, climate change, and biological invasion). Salt marshes are coastal habitats with a key role in food and shelter...

In 2014, a DNA-based phylogenetic study confirming the paraphyly of the grasssubtribeSporobolinaeproposed the creation of a large monophyletic genusSporobolus, includ-ing (among others) species previously included in the generaSpartina,Calamovilfa, andSporobolus. Spartinaspecies have contributed substantially (and continue contributing) to...