The Water Quality Consequences of Restoring Wetland Hydrology to a Large Agricultural Watershed in the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1060-1078

  Ardón, Marcelo ^a   Morse, Jennifer L ^a   Doyle, Martin W ^b   Bernhardt, Emily S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

mitigation; nitrogen; phosphorus; restoration; retention; wetland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COASTAL WETLAND; COMPACTION; EUTROPHICATION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MITIGATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT BUDGET; PHOSPHORUS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957755741     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9374-x     Document Type: Article

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