Proceedings of a meeting held in Vineland, New Jersey, April 1998. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tidal marshes as outwelling/pulsing systems / Eugene P. Odum -- Salt marsh values : retrospection from the end of the century / John M. Teal, Brian L. Howes -- Role of salt marshes as part of coastal landscapes / Ivan Valiela ... {et al.} -- Spatial variation in process and pattern in salt marsh plant communities in eastern North America / Mark D. Bertness, Steven C. Pennings -- Eco-physiological controls on the productivity of Spartina alterniflora Loisel / Irving A. Mendelssohn, James T. Morris -- Community structure and functional dynamics of benthic microalgae in salt marshes / Michael J. Sullivan, Carolyn A. Currin -- Structure and productivity of microtidal Mediterranean coastal marshes / Carles Iba nez ... {et al.} -- Development and structure of salt marshes : community patterns in time and space / A.J. Davy -- Microbial secondary production from salt marsh-grass shoots, and its known and potential fates / Steven Y. Newell, David Porter -- Trophic complexity between producers and invertebrate consumers in salt marshes / Daniel A. Kreeger, Roger I.E. Newell -- Trophic linkages in marshes : ontogenetic changes in diet for young-of-the-year mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus / Kelly J. Smith, Gary L. Taghon, Kenneth W. Able -- Factors influencing habitat selection in fishes with a review of marsh ecosystems / J. Kevin Craig, Larry B. Crowder -- Salt marsh ecoscapes and production transfers by estuarine nekton in the southeastern United States / R.T. Kneib -- Salt marsh linkages to productivity of penaeid shrimps and blue crabs in the northern Gulf of Mexico / Roger J. Zimmerman, Thomas J. Minello, Lawrence P. Rozas -- Ecophysiological determinants of secondary production in salt marshes : a simulation study / J.M. Miller ... {et al.} -- Salt marsh ecosystem support of marine transient species / Linda A. Deegan, Jeffrey E. Hughes, Rodney A. Rountree -- Benthic-pelagic coupling in marsh-estuarine ecosystems / Richard F. Dame, Eric Koepfler, Leah Gregory -- Twenty more years of marsh and estuarine flux studies : revisiting Nixon (1980) / Daniel L. Childers, John W. Day, Jr., Henry N. McKellar, Jr. -- The role of oligohaline marshes in estuarine nutrient cycling / Jennifer Z. Merrill, Jeffrey C. Cornwell -- Molecular tools for studying biogeochemical cycling in salt marshes : molecular studies of bacteria / Lee Kerkhof, David J. Scala -- Nitrogen and vegetation dynamics in European salt marshes / Jelte Rozema ... {et al.} -- A stable isotope model approach to estimating the contribution of organic matter from marshes to estuaries / Peter M. Eldridge, Luis A. Cifuentes -- Types of salt marsh edge and export of trophic energy from marshes to deeper habitats / G. Cicchetti, R.J. Diaz -- Silicon is the link between tidal marshes and estuarine fisheries : a new paradigm / Courtney T. Hackney ... {et al.} -- Self-design applied to coastal restoration : an application of ecological engineering / William J. Mitsch -- Functional equivalency of restored and natural salt marshes / Joy B. Zedler, Roberto Lindig-Cisneros -- Organic and inorganic contributions to vertical accretion in salt marsh sediments / R.E. Turner, E.M. Swenson, C.S. Milan --