Relationships between salt marsh loss and dredged canals in three Louisiana Estuaries

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 895-903

  Bass, Aaron S ^a,b   Turner, R Eugene ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal management; Dredging impacts; Mitigation; Wetland loss

Indexed keywords

CANALS; COASTAL ZONE; DREDGING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND LOSS; LOSS; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; MARSH CANAL; SALT MARSH; SALT MARSHES; WETLAND HYDROLOGY;

USA, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI DELTA;

EID: 0030741489     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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