Artificial modifications of the coast in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Quick solutions or long-term liabilities?

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-49

  Luisa Martinez M ^a   Feagin, Rusty A ^b   Yeager, Kevin M ^c   Day, John ^d   Costanza, Robert ^e   Harris, Jim A ^f   Hobbs, Richard J ^g   López Portillo, Jorge ^a   Walker, Ian J ^h   Higgs, Eric ^h   Moreno Casasola, Patricia ^a   Sheinbaum, Julio ⁱ   Yáñez Arancibia, Alejandro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

ⁱ Oceanografia Fisica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; BERM; COASTAL ZONE; DEEP WATER; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARSH; OIL SPILL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAND RIDGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84858668887     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/100151     Document Type: Article

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