Influence of Physical Manipulations on Short-Term Salt Marsh Morphodynamics: Examples from the North and Mid-Atlantic Coast, USA

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 423-439

  Elsey Quirk, Tracy ^a,c   Adamowicz, Susan C ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Barnegat Bay; Hydrology; Mosquito ditches; OMWM; Plum Island Sound; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; AMMONIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; ELEVATION; HYDROLOGY; MORPHODYNAMICS; MOSQUITO; POREWATER; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER TABLE;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; BARNEGAT BAY; MASSACHUSETTS; NEW JERSEY; PLUM ISLAND SOUND; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 84957436896     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-015-0013-9     Document Type: Article

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