Impacts and recovery of the deepwater horizon oil spill on vegetation structure and function of coastal salt marshes in the northern gulf of Mexico

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3737-3743

  Lin, Qianxin ^a   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; COASTAL MARSH; DEEPWATER; LOUISIANA; MARSH SOILS; MESOCOSMS; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; OIL COVERAGE; SALT MARSHES; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; STEM DENSITY; TOTAL PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

OIL SPILLS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; RECOVERY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

WETLANDS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP WATER; GRASS; MESOCOSM; MORTALITY; OIL SPILL; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SALTMARSH; SHORELINE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COASTAL PLAIN; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; MESOCOSM; MEXICO; OIL SPILL; PLANT; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; VEGETATION;

BAYS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GULF OF MEXICO; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WETLANDS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARATARIA BAY; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

JUNCUS; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 84859320356     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203552p     Document Type: Article

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