ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



I wish to thank all the collaborators 

 who have worked on salt marshes with me 

 over the 30 years that I have had that 

 pleasure. These include scientists, high 

 school through post-graduate students, 

 marsh landowners, and, occasionally, even 

 developers who were considering filling or 

 dredging but wanted more information about 

 the consequences of their actions before 

 they proceeded. I want to thank my fellow 

 workers from the Sapelo Island Marine 

 Institute of the University of Georgia 

 where I got started with my career in salt 

 marshes: L. R. Pomeroy, E.P. Odum, H.T. 

 Odum, H. Kale, and the late R.J. Reynolds, 

 Jr. More recently, I am in considerable 

 debt to the individuals who have been a 

 part of the Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh 

 project at Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution, Boston University Marine 

 Program, and Marine Biology Laboratory. 



My principal partner has been I. Valiela. 

 Too many others have contributed to list 

 them all, but I would like to thank B. 

 Howes, J. Dacey, D. Goehringer, A. Giblin, 

 R. Van Etten, C. Cogswell, N. Butler, and 

 C. Werme. I also want to mention Dorothea 

 Gifford, Andrew Diddel, and Salt Pond 

 Sanctuaries, on whose marshlands most of 

 our research on New England salt marshes 

 was done. I am grateful to the reviewers 

 of this effort, especially Ralph Andrews, 

 and to my editor Martha Young for her 

 understanding of my difficulties and long, 

 advice-filled telephone conversations. 

 Rob Brown and Penny Herring at NCET 

 assisted in editing and rewriting the 

 manuscript. Keyboarding of the manuscript 

 was done by Daisy Singleton and Sue 

 Frederickson. Sue Lauritzen designed 

 the layout, and the layout was formatted 

 by Daisy Singleton. 



