Detection of salt marsh vegetation stress and recovery after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Barataria Bay, Gulf of Mexico using AVIRIS data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Khanna, Shruti ^a   Santos, Maria J ^b   Ustin, Susan L ^a   Koltunov, Alexander ^a   Kokaly, Raymond F ^c   Roberts, Dar A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GULF OF MEXICO; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT STRESS; REVEGETATION; SALT MARSH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BAYS; ECOSYSTEM; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84892376305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078989     Document Type: Article

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