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Exclosure experiment plot to study productivity in the Juncus zone of the salt marsh, Sapleo Island, Georgia (site of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER). GCE LTER

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Boardwalk at the Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTER site at Sapelo Island, allows visitors to traipse throught the smooth cordgrass marsh.

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Spartina alterniflora grows quite tall on Sapelo Island, site of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER. These structures enclose an increased number of periwinkle snails (Littoraria) to study their effects on the productivity of the marsh.

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Marsh periwinkle shown to scale, salt marsh, Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTER.

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Spartina alternaflora at high tide, Dean Creek, Sapelo Island, Georgia- location of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTER site.

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Marsh Periwinkle (Littorina irrorata),one of three very common snails found in the salt marshes of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTER Site, Sapelo Island.

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Schistocerca obscure ("obscure bird grasshopper") is one of about five important species of grasshoppers in the spartina marshes of Sapelo Island, Georgia.

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Altamaha River and adjacent marsh (photo courtesy Wade Sheldon). GCE LTER

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Marsh grasshopper (Hesperotettix floridensis) (photo courtesy of Steven Pennings). GCE LTER

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Sapelo Island tidal creek (photo courtesy of Wade Sheldon). GCE LTER

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Sapelo Island tidal creek (photo courtesy of Steven Pennings). GCE LTER

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Sediment elevation table installation at a GCE-LTER marsh site (photo courtesy of Chris Craft). GCE LTER