Sayer, C; Tibby, J; (2017) Inferring Environmental Change in Estuaries from Plant Macrofossils. In: Weckstrom, K and Saunders, KM and Gell, PA and Skilbeck, CG, (eds.) Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies. (pp. 423-440). Springer: Cham, Switzerland.

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Aquatic plants are critical components of estuarine ecosystems supporting biodiversity and a range of ecosystem services such as sediment stabilisation and denitrification. However, estuarine plants, similar to their freshwater counterparts, are in decline and under threat. The examination of remains of aquatic plants in sediment records can document the fate of the plants themselves, along with numerous natural and anthropogenic changes in estuaries, including those associated with relative sea level change, pollution and habitat degradation. In comparison with other proxies, the use of macrofossils in estuaries is in its relative infancy. However, many approaches to the examination of plant macrofossils can be utilised from the freshwater domain where a number of advances have been made, particularly in the past decade.

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