Table 4. Relative amount (%) of coverage of high and low marsh in various 

 New England salt marshes. 



?Blum (1968). 



Redfield (1972) % of emergent marsh. 

 ^Nixon and Oviatt (1973a). 

 °Steever (1972). 

 ^Udell et al. (1969). 

 \agna (1975). 

 ^O'Connor and Terry (1972), average for virtually all of the marshes in the 



two counties, except it is not clear if the marshes of Hempstead and south 



Oyster Bays were excluded as being "atypical." 



Table 5. The ratio of high marsh (S^. patens , Distichlis , Juncus ) to low marsh 

 (S. alterniflora ) along the Atlantic coast. The extent of each wetland type 

 was reported by Spinner (1969) based on 1954 U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries 

 and Wildlife data and by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game. 



State High marsh/low marsh 



Maine 11.1 



New Hampshire 14. 1 



Massachusetts 4.3 



Rhode Island 2.1 



Connecticut 3.3 



New York 2.1 



New Jersey 7.2 



Delaware 1-1 



Maryland 7.4 



Virginia 0.5 



North Carol ina!| 1.7 



South Carolina 0.3 



Georgia 0.3 



Florida (east coast) 3.3 



^Includes Juncus marsh. 



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