Research in my laboratory is directed at determining the environmental factors and adaptive plant responses controlling primary productivity in salt marsh halophytes. We are measuring several major environmental variables such as concentrations of nitrogen, salinity, and sulfide and determining the photosynthetic water relations and growth responses to these variables along environmental gradients in the southeastern coastal salt marshes. Selected Publications Bradley, P. M., and E. L. Dunn. 1989. Effects of sulfide on the growth of three salt marsh halophytes of the southeastern United States. Haines, B. L., and E. L. Dunn.
Coastal salt marshes.
Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities. Giurgevich, J. R., and E. L. Dunn. Seasonal patterns of daily net photosynthesis, transpiration and primary productivity of Juncus roemerianus and Spartina alterniflora in a Georgia salt marsh.