Salt marsh restoration with sediment-slurry amendments following a drought-induced large-scale disturbance

Wetlands

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1071-1085

  Schrift, Angela M ^a,b   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a   Materne, Michael D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PBS and J   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown marsh; Elevation; Mississippi River Delta Plain; Plant recruitment and recovery; Spartina alterniflora; Successional trajectories; Sudden salt marsh dieback

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ORGANIC MATTER; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RHIZOME; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURVIVAL; TRAJECTORY;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 77749280610     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/07-78.1     Document Type: Article

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