The wetlands of lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas: Past, present and future

Environmental Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue , 2007, Pages 43-77

  Keddy, P A ^a   Campbell, D ^a   McFalls, T ^a   Shaffer, G P ^a   Moreau, R ^a   Dranguet, C ^a   Heleniak, R ^a  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Louisiana; Maurepas; Mississippi River; Pontchartrain; Restoration; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CANALS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAKES; MAMMALS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION; WATER; HURRICANES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LOUISIANA; MAUREPAS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NATURAL VEGETATION; PONTCHARTRAIN; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM; VEGETATION PATTERN;

WETLANDS;

LOUISIANA; MAUREPAS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; PONTCHARTRAIN;

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATORINAE; CUPRESSUS; MAMMALIA; MYOCASTOR COYPUS; MYOCASTORINAE; NYSSA AQUATICA; NYSSACEAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 38049158496     PISSN: 11818700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/a06-008     Document Type: Review

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