Sediment retention in a bottomland hardwood wetland in Eastern Arkansas

Wetlands

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 321-333

  Kleiss, Barbara A ^a,b  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arkansas; Bottomland hardwoods; Cache River; Forested wetlands; Sedimentation; Vertical accretion; Wetland functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001415972     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03161323     Document Type: Article

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