Integrating Successional Ecology and the Delta Lobe Cycle in Wetland Research and Restoration

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1490-1505

  Nyman, J A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delta; Delta Lobe Cycle; Disturbance; Diversion; Louisiana; Restoration; Succession; Wetland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930820271     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9747-4     Document Type: Article

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