Salinity influences on aboveground and belowground net primary productivity in tidal wetlands

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Pierfelice, Kathryn N ^a   Graeme Lockaby, B ^a   Krauss, Ken W ^b   Conner, William H ^c   Noe, Gregory B ^d   Ricker, Matthew C ^e  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline data for modeling; Carbon; Marshes; Nitrogen; Productivity; River systems; Salinity; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; NITROGEN; PRODUCTIVITY; SEA LEVEL; WATER;

BASELINE DATA; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; MARSHES; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; RIVER SYSTEMS; SALINITY; TIDAL FRESHWATER WETLAND; VULNERABLE ECOSYSTEMS;

WETLANDS;

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION; CARBON; MARSH; MODELING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; RIVER SYSTEM; SALINITY; WETLAND;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85009415119     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0001223     Document Type: Article

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