Halosere

A salt marsh

Ahalosereis anecological successioninsaline waterenvironments. An example of a halosere is asalt marsh.

In ariverestuary,large amounts ofsiltare deposited by the ebbingtides,as well as inflowing rivers.

Plants in halosere

TheGreat Salt LakeinUtah,satellite photo from August 2018 after years ofdrought

The earliestplantcolonizers arealgaeandzostera,which can tolerate submergence by the tide for most of the 12 hour cycle and which trap mud, causing it to accumulate.

Two other colonizer plants areSalicornia,andSpartina,which are bothhalophytes.Halophytes are plants that can tolerate saline conditions and they grow on the intertidalmudflatswith a maximum of four hours' exposure to air every 12 hours.On a large scale halophytes have colonized the halosere on the banks of theGreat Salt LakeinUtah.Halosere vegetation can also be found in the salt marshes of theWadden Seaislands and the zone towards thedunes.

River estuaries

In a riverestuary,large amount ofsiltare depositing. Halosere in river estuaries consist of mudflats and the so called sward zone. Halosere sward zones can be found in theLlanrhidianmarsh on theGower Peninsula.

See also

• Seral community