Through droughts and hurricanes: Tree mortality, forest structure, and biomass production in a coastal swamp targeted for restoration in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 937-948

  Hoeppner, Susanne S ^a   Shaffer, Gary P ^b   Perkins, Thas E ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baldcypress swamp; Flooding; Forested wetland; Louisiana; Nyssa aquatica; Restoration; Salinity; Saltwater intrusion; Taxodium distichum

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONSERVATION; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; OCEAN HABITATS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; REPAIR; RESTORATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; WETLANDS; WOOD;

ABOVE-GROUND BIOMASS; ACCELERATED SEA-LEVEL RISE; ANNUAL MEAN; BALDCYPRESS SWAMP; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; DELTAIC PLAIN; FLOODING; FOREST STRUCTURES; FORESTED WETLAND; LEAF LITTER; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NEGATIVE CORRELATIONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NYSSA AQUATICA; SALINITY; SALTWATER INTRUSION; SOIL SALINITY; SOIL STRENGTH; SPECIES COMPOSITIONS; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM; TREE-MORTALITY; WETLAND HABITATS; WO OD PRODUCTION; WOODY SPECIES;

WELL FLOODING;

BIOMASS; COASTAL WETLAND; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HURRICANE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MORTALITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REINTRODUCTION; SALINE INTRUSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STAND STRUCTURE; SWAMP;

BIOMASS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DROUGHT; FLOODING; FORESTRY; RESTORATION; SALINITY; SWAMPS; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM; WETLANDS; WOOD;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS PENNSYLVANICA; MORELLA CERIFERA; NYSSA AQUATICA; NYSSACEAE; SALIX; SALIX NIGRA; TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM; TRIADICA;

EID: 48849100909     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.040     Document Type: Article

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