Year-one recovery of an intermediate marsh in South Louisiana after an in-situ burn for oil spill remediation

Proceedings of the 30th Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program, AMOP Technical Seminar

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 427-435

  Baustian, Joseph J ^a   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a   Lin, Qianxin ^a   Rapp, John ^b   Myers, James ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; OIL SPILLS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; DOMINANT PLANTS; EFFECTIVE TOOL; HURRICANE KATRINA; PAPER DOCUMENTS; PLANT HEIGHT; STEM DENSITY; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

RECOVERY;

EID: 35948997429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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