Salt marsh restoration with sediment-slurry application: Effects on benthic macroinvertebrates and associated soil-plant variables

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 151-160

  Tong, Chunfu ^a,b   Baustian, Joseph J ^a   Graham, Sean A ^a   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrate; Restoration; Salt marsh; Sediment slurry; Soil; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; LOUISIANA; MACROINVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MARSH VEGETATION; PLANT BIOMASS; REFERENCE CONDITION; SALT MARSH RESTORATION; SALT MARSHES; SEDIMENT-SLURRY; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEM DENSITY; TOTAL BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RECOVERY; RESTORATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SLURRIES; SOILS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

SEDIMENTS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BENTHOS; COASTAL ZONE; GRASS; HABITAT RESTORATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SLURRY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 84872046960     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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