The role of the everglades mangrove ecotone region (EMER) in regulating nutrient cycling and wetland productivity in South Florida

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 633-669

  Rivera Monroy, Victor H ^a   Twilley, Robert R ^a   Davis, Stephen E ^b   Childers, Daniel L ^c   Simard, Marc ^d   Chambers, Randolph ^e   Jaffe, Rudolf ^f   Boyer, Joseph N ^f   Rudnick, David T ^g   Zhang, Keqi ^f   Castaneda Moya, Edward ^a   Ewe, Sharon M L ^f   Price, Rene M ^f   Coronado Molina, Carlos ^g   Ross, Michael ^f   Smith, Thomas J ^h   Michot, Beatrice ⁱ   Meselhe, Ehab ⁱ   Nuttle, William ^j   Troxler, Tiffany G ^f   Noe, Gregory B ^k   more..

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^f FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Wetland Watershed Sciences Division   (United States)

^h US Geological Survey Florida Southeast Ecological Science Center   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^j Eco Hydrology   (Canada)

^k U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

carbon; Florida Bay; mangrove; nitrogen; phosphorus; soil biogeochemistry; water quality

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEA LEVEL; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; FRESHWATER INPUTS; HYDROPERIODS; LAND-USE DECISIONS; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; MANGROVE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RAPID CHANGES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHORT TERM; SOIL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; SOIL PHOSPHORUS; SOUTH FLORIDA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; TREE CANOPY; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; WATER FLOWS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESTORATION; SEA LEVEL; SOILS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CARBON; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CANOPY; COASTAL ZONE; DECISION ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MANGROVE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRANSGRESSION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL PLAIN; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ECOTONE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; LAND USE; MANGROVE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SOIL FERTILITY; SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY; SWAMP; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 79951841139     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2010.530907     Document Type: Article

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