Tampa Bay Coastal Wetlands: Nineteenth to Twentieth Century Tidal Marsh-to-Mangrove Conversion

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1145-1162

  Raabe, Ellen A ^a   Roy, Laura C ^b   McIvor, Carole C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Belanger and Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Florida; Habitat conversion; Historic surveys; Landscape analysis; Mangroves; Marshes

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLAND; DIGITIZATION; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FRESHWATER INPUT; HABITAT LOSS; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MANGROVE; MARSH; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; TAMPA BAY; UNITED STATES;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84865560171     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-012-9503-1     Document Type: Article

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