Biogeochemical effects of seawater restoration to diked salt marshes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1054-1063

  Portnoy, J W ^a   Giblin, A E ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid sulfate soils; Cape Cod; Coastal wetland subsidence; Diking; Eutrophication; Salt marsh restoration; Salt water intrusion; Spartina alterniflora; Sulfur cycling

Indexed keywords

GADUS MORHUA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0030782247     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[1054:BEOSRT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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