The marsh violets, the food for the larvae of the small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly, are being planted on Norbury Hill. The aim is to plant 20,000 this winter, which Dr Charlie Bell ...
The study was based on computer modeling of waves propagating over different shore profiles, using the morphology of various salt marsh plants -- the height and stiffness of the plants ...
However, the real-world data needed to model a marsh, including maps of salt marsh species, plant height, and shoots per bed area, are "very labor-intensive" to put together, Nepf says.