Marsh construction techniques influence net plant carbon capture by emergent and submerged vegetation in a brackish marsh in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 54-63

  Madrid, Eric N ^a   Quigg, Antonietta ^a   Armitage, Anna R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon storage and sequestration; Constructed marsh; Gulf of Mexico; Net annual plant carbon capture; Net annual primary production; Restoration

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANTS; CARBON STORAGE; CONSTRUCTED MARSH; GULF OF MEXICO; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

CARBON; CARBON CAPTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RESTORATION; TISSUE; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GIS; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT LOSS; MARSH; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; VEGETATION TYPE; WETLAND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84857577321     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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