Freshwater river diversions for marsh restoration in Louisiana: Twenty-six years of changing vegetative cover and marsh area

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Kearney, Michael S ^a   Riter, J C Alexis ^a   Turner, R Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; RESTORATION; VEGETATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; COASTAL WETLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION PROJECTS; FRESHWATER RIVERS; KATRINA; LANDSAT; LOUISIANA; MARSH RESTORATION; REFERENCE SITES; ROOT GROWTH; STORM DAMAGE; VEGETATIVE COVER; VERTICAL ACCRETION;

WETLANDS;

BIOMASS; COASTAL WETLAND; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; HURRICANE RITA 2005; LANDSAT; MARSH; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; REMEDIATION; RIVER; VEGETATION COVER; VULNERABILITY;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052197566     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047847     Document Type: Article

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