Contribution of tropical cyclones to the sediment budget for coastal wetlands in Louisiana, USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1083-1094

  Tweel, Andrew W ^a   Turner, R Eugene ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal wetlands; Delta; Hurricane; Salt marsh; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COASTAL WETLAND; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTATION; STORM SURGE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903155370     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0047-6     Document Type: Article

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