Optimum vegetation height and density for inorganic sedimentation in deltaic marshes

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 722-726

  Nardin, William ^a,b   Edmonds, Douglas A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INORGANIC MATTER; MARSH; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; VEGETATION;

ATCHAFALAYA DELTA; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES; WAX LAKE DELTA;

EID: 84930196135     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2233     Document Type: Article

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