Balanced Sediment Fluxes in Southern California’s Mediterranean-Climate Zone Salt Marshes

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1035-1049

  Rosencranz, Jordan A ^a,e   Ganju, Neil K ^b   Ambrose, Richard F ^a   Brosnahan, Sandra M ^b   Dickhudt, Patrick J ^c   Guntenspergen, Glenn R ^d   MacDonald, Glen M ^a   Takekawa, John Y ^e,f   Thorne, Karen M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mediterranean climate; Salt marshes; Suspended sediment fluxes; Tidal creeks; Vertical accretion

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRY SEASON; EL NINO; ELEVATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STORM; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

CALIFORNIA; SEAL BEACH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949496971     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-0056-y     Document Type: Article

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