Restoring marsh elevation in a rapidly subsiding salt marsh by thin-layer deposition of dredged material

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 189-205

  Ford, Mark A ^a   Cahoon, Donald R ^b   Lynch, James C ^b  

^a Johnson Controls World Services Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevation; Marsh restoration; Mississippi River delta; Shallow subsidence; Spray dredging; Vertical accretion

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EROSION; DREDGING; MARSH; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032987688     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(98)00061-5     Document Type: Article

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