The impact of wastewater effluent on accretion and decomposition in a subsiding forested wetland

Wetlands

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-32

  Rybczyk, John M ^a   Day, John W ^b   Conner, William H ^c  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BACI; Delta; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Restoration; Sea level rise; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; DECOMPOSITION; EFFLUENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; WASTEWATER; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036220165     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2002)022[0018:TIOWEO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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