Use of sediment amendments to rehabilitate sinking coastal swamp forests in Louisiana

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 183-191

  Middleton, Beth A ^a   Jiang, Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Baldcypress swamp; Disturbance dynamics; Dredge spoil; Nyssa aquatica; Recruitment; Salinity; Taxodium distichum

Indexed keywords

BALDCYPRESS SWAMP; NYSSA AQUATICA; RECRUITMENT; SALINITY; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

OIL SPILLS; OPTIMIZATION; REFORESTATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

SEDIMENTS;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL WETLAND; DISTURBANCE; DREDGE SPOIL; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT RESTORATION; HERB; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; REMEDIATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; ROOT SYSTEM; SALINITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWAMP FOREST; THRESHOLD; VEGETATION COVER;

OPTIMIZATION; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; SALINITY; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

JEAN LAFITTE NATIONAL PARK; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874439334     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.01.025     Document Type: Article

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