ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses to tidally influenced systems because processes associated with hydrology are critical for restoration planning and success. The current paradigm of formation and development of salt marshes framed by has been used and modified by a generation of scientists, most recently to explain marsh growth with recent acceleration of sea level rise. Certainly the need for conservation and restoration of salt marshes today is as urgent as and even more global in appeal than when salt marsh losses were first called to attention by Teal and Teal. Occupation of coastal areas by humans with agrarian lifestyles has led to diking of salt marshes and conversion to agriculture. One might think that relatively harsh physical conditions encountered in salt marshes would themselves preclude invasions by non-native plants and animals, but the adaptations of a species on one coast may serve it well when transported to a new coast.
