Beneficial use of dredged material to enhance the restoration trajectories of formerly diked lands

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-201

  Weinstein, Michael P ^a   Weishar, Lee L ^b  

^a New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium   (United States)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

Diked lands; Dredged material; Restoration trajectories

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLAND; DIKE; DREDGE SPOIL; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; SUBSIDENCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036739685     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(02)00077-0     Document Type: Article

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