Saltwater encroachment and prediction of future ecosystem response to the Anthropocene Marine Transgression, Southeast Saline Everglades, Florida

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 803, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 29-48

  Meeder, John F ^a   Parkinson, Randall W ^a   Ruiz, Pablo L ^b   Ross, Michael S ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US National Park Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation rate; Biogenic sediment; Freshwater; Mangrove depositional environments; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOCENE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FRESHWATER; FUTURE PROSPECT; MANGROVE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; SALT WATER; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TRANSGRESSION; WATERSHED;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85028597443     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-017-3359-0     Document Type: Article

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