Oil impacts on coastal wetlands: Implications for the Mississippi River delta ecosystem after the deepwater horizon oil spill

BioScience

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 562-574

  Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a   Andersen, Gary L ^b   Baltz, Donald M ^a   Caffey, Rex H ^a   Carman, Kevin R ^a   Fleeger, John W ^a   Joye, Samantha B ^c   Lin, Qianxin ^a   Maltby, Edward ^d   Overton, Edward B ^a   Rozas, Lawrence P ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

coastal ecosystems; ecology; environmental science; microbiology; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862559901     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2012.62.6.7     Document Type: Article

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