Using mangroves to stabilize coastal historic sites: deployment success versus natural recruitment

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 803, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 389-401

  Donnelly, Melinda ^a   Shaffer, Michelle ^a   Connor, Suzanne ^a   Sacks, Paul ^a   Walters, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Living shoreline; Rhizophora mangle; Shell midden; Shoreline stabilization; Spartina alterniflora

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIVALVE; COASTAL ZONE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GRAIN SIZE; GROWTH; MANGROVE; REPRODUCTION; SHELL; SHORELINE; SITE INVESTIGATION; SURVIVAL;

CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

OSTREIDAE; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 85015670893     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3155-x     Document Type: Article

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