Relationships between watershed emergy flow and coastal New England salt marsh structure, function, and condition

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1391-1412

  Brandt Williams, Sherry ^a,b   Wigand, Cathleen ^a   Campbell, Daniel E ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b ST JOHNS RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

Author keywords

Areas of impairment; Emergy flow; Empower density; Environmental indicators, wetlands; Nutrient loading; Salt marsh condition index; Watershed development; Watershed management; Wetland impairment

Indexed keywords

AREAS OF IMPAIRMENT; CONDITION INDEX; EMERGY FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; NUTRIENT LOADING; WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY; LOADING; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

WETLANDS;

NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEA WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SALTMARSH; WATERSHED; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MUSSEL; POPULATION DENSITY; SALT MARSH; SEASHORE; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WATERSHED EMERGY FLOW; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INVERTEBRATE; PLANT; SALINITY; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

NARRAGANSETT BAY; NEW ENGLAND; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; NEW ENGLAND; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS; SALINITY; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874406068     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2640-y     Document Type: Article

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