Applications from Paleoecology to Environmental Management and Restoration in a Dynamic Coastal Environment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 765-775

  Watson, Elizabeth B ^a,b   Wasson, Kerstin ^b   Pasternack, Gregory B ^c   Woolfolk, Andrea ^b   Van Dyke, Eric ^b   Gray, Andrew B ^c   Pakenham, Anna ^d   Wheatcroft, Robert A ^d  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal management; Estuary; Paleoecology; Salt marsh restoration

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASELINE CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; WETLAND;

CALIFORNIA; ELKHORN SLOUGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81355160854     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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