Associate Professor East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina, United States
Restoring wetland ecosystem functions requires adaptive management that enables plant-microbe associations to establish, thrive, and tolerate changing environmental conditions. But often missing from management plans are approaches that consider plant-microbe associations to improve the restoration of ecosystem functions in engineered green infrastructure. Therefore, we consider how knowledge of eco-evolutionary dynamics of plant-microbe associations in a saltier and stormier world can improve the design and maintenance of nature-based solutions. Specifically, we examine how passive and active microbial treatments influence ecosystem functions related to carbon storage and water quality improvement in living shorelines and floating treatment wetlands.
