Controls on resilience and stability in a sediment-subsidized salt marsh

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1731-1744

  Stagg, Camille L ^a   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Ecological restoration; Experimental disturbance; Mississippi delta plain, Louisiana, USA; Salt marsh; Sea level rise; Sediment slurry addition; Spartina alterniflora; Submergence

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GRASS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SLURRY; SUBMERGENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; SEDIMENT; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LOUISIANA; PLANTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL; WATER;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 79960380297     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2128.1     Document Type: Article

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