Ecology of tidal marshes of the Pacific Northwest coast: a community profile

This tidal marsh community profile is part of a series of publications concerning coastal habitats. The purpose of this profile is to describe the structure and ecological functions of tidal marshes of the Pacific Northwest coast. This habitat is classified by Cowardin et al. (1979) as occurring in the estuarine systems, intertidal subsystem, emergent wetland class, and persistent subclass with a regularly or irregularly flooded water regime. The water chemistry is mixohaline and the soils are mineral or organic.