Temporal and spatial relationships between watershed land use and salt marsh disturbance in a pacific estuary

Environmental Management

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-112

  Byrd, Kristin B ^a   Kelly, N Maggi ^a   Merenlender, Adina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use; Multi temporal analysis; Remote sensing; Salt marsh; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; MULTI TEMPORAL ANALYSES; SALT MARSH; WATERSHED IMPACTS;

LAND USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WETLANDS;

WATERSHEDS;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

DATA SET; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LAND COVER; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; LAND USE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; REMOTE SENSING; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SALT MARSH; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION; WATERSHED; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SALTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL; WETLANDS;

CALIFORNIA; ELKHORN SLOUGH; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845481813     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0217-z     Document Type: Article

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