Acute salt marsh dieback in the Mississippi River deltaic plain: A drought-induced phenomenon?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-73

  McKee, Karen L ^a   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^b   Materne, Michael D ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disturbance; Louisiana; Pyrite; Salinity; Sea level; Soil acidification; Spartina; USA; Wetland

Indexed keywords

DIEBACK; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DELTA; DESICCATION; MORTALITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; SALINITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; MISSISSIPPI RIVER;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; JUNCUS; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; UNIDENTIFIED PLANT;

EID: 1942435280     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-882X.2004.00075.x     Document Type: Article

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