Monitoring an ungagged coastal marsh to analyze the salinity interaction of the marsh with Lake Erie.

Phragmites growth in a marsh watershed due to increased salinity has been a crucial issue across the world. The objective of this study was to investigate the salinity movement in the ungagged Mentor Marsh of Ohio, USA, where the salinity had increased due to a number of potential sources causing a decline in the native vegetation and leading to the increased invasive phragmites growth. In this study, we conducted a detailed bathymetric survey and established several monitoring stations to record hourly environmental data in Mentor Marsh.