M. Leakey's scientific contributions

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Colonization of a recreated area of intertidal land by marine invertebrates and their bird predators was studied from April 1993 to August 1997. The most important food of large shorebirds, the ragworm Nereis diversicolor, did not reappear until late summer 1995 and did not become abundant until the following autumn. Annual attempts at colonization...

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... This in turn leads to soil compaction and it is a common phenomenon in many saltmarshes when the soil is submerged by tidal waters (Crooks, 1998;Crooks et al., 2002). These compacted soil surfaces inhibit the infiltration of new sediments, lead to the underlying soil becoming hypoxic (Crooks et al., 2002), and affect some ecological processes above the ground (Evans et al., 1998). Once saltmarshes are inundated by tidal waters, the largescale treatment of compacted soil to make it suitable for saltmarsh plant colonization is very challenging (Brooks et al., 2015). ...