Approaches to coastal wetland restoration : Northern Gulf of Mexico /
Wetlands Lost The 1,879 thousand hectares of coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) comprise 58% of the U.S. coastal wetland total (Turner and Gosselink 1975). These wetlands occur in every GOM state, although two-thirds of the GOM total are in Louisiana, and are typically associated with estu...
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The Hague, Netherlands :
SPB Academic Pub.,
©2002.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Crevasse splays
- Former agriculture impoundments
- Backfilling
- Managing spoil banks
- Bay bottom terracing
- Dredged material wetlands
- Excavated wetlands
- Thin-layer placement
- Comparisons, applications and the future
- Literature cited
- Appendix 1. A lexicon of wetlands restoration
- Appendix 2. Equivalent unites
- Subject index.