Decline of the Maurepas swamp, Pontchartrain Basin, Louisiana, and approaches to restoration

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Shaffer, Gary P ^a,b,c   Day, John W ^b,d   Kandalepas, Demetra ^a,c   Wood, William B ^a   Hunter, Rachael G ^b   Lane, Robert R ^b,d   Hillmann, Eva R ^a  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Comite Resources Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Wetland Resources   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal forested wetlands; Hydrologic alteration; Mississippi River diversion; Saltwater intrusion; Taxodium distichum Nyssa aquatica swamp

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; FLOODS; NUTRIENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; RIVER DIVERSION; SALT WATER INTRUSION; WATER; WATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

FORESTED WETLANDS; HABITAT CLASSIFICATION; HYDROLOGIC ALTERATIONS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NUTRIENT-STARVATION; NYSSA AQUATICA; SURFACE ELEVATION CHANGES; VEGETATION PRODUCTIVITY;

FORESTRY;

ACCRETION; BASAL AREA; COASTAL WETLAND; CONIFEROUS TREE; FLOODING; HERB; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MORTALITY; ORGANIC SOIL; POPULATION DECLINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER WATER; SALINE INTRUSION; SWAMP; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION COVER;

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN; LOUISIANA; MAUREPAS SWAMP; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

MYOCASTORINAE; NYSSA AQUATICA; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 84964321072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8030101     Document Type: Article

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