Restoration success of backfilling canals in coastal Louisiana marshes

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 636-644

  Baustian, Joseph J ^a   Eugene Turner, R ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backfilling; Canals; Coastal Louisiana; Land loss; Marsh restoration; Spoil banks

Indexed keywords

BACKFILL; CANAL; COASTAL WETLAND; MARSH; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751055592     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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