Vegetation death and rapid loss of surface elevation in two contrasting Mississippi delta salt marshes: The role of sedimentation, autocompaction and sea-level rise

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-240

  Day, John W ^a   Kemp, G Paul ^b   Reed, Denise J ^c   Cahoon, Donald R ^d   Boumans, Roelof M ^e   Suhayda, Joseph M ^a   Gambrell, Robert ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Compaction; Mississippi delta; Peat collapse; Soil strength; Subsidence; Wetland loss

Indexed keywords

AUTO-COMPACTION; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS; LOUISIANA; MARSH SOILS; MINERAL CONTENT; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; ORGANIC MATTER; ROOT GROWTH; SALT MARSHES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOIL STRENGTH; SOIL VOLUME; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; STEP DOWN; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; VERTICAL ACCRETION; WAVE ACTIVITY; WEAK SOIL; WETLAND LOSS;

COMPACTION; LAKES; PEAT; REVEGETATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; SUBSIDENCE; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

COMPACTION; DESICCATION; DREDGING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MINERAL; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDATION; POND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL STRENGTH; SUBSIDENCE; VEGETATION TYPE;

ATCHAFALAYA RIVER; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

OSTREIDAE; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 78751706397     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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