Foreseeable Flooding and Death of Coastal Wetland Forests
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Environmental Conservation
- Vol. 14 (2) , 129-133
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900011486
Abstract
Relationships between sedimentation, submergence, and deterioration, of a Mississippi River deltaic-plain coastal wetland forest were investigated. Measured sedimentation rates (0.63 ± 0.35 cm per yr) as determined by 137Cs-dating were considerably less than the rapid increase in water-level (c. 1.36 cm per yr). Transplanted seedlings of Quercus lyrata (Overcup Oak) and of Taxodium distichum (Bald Cypress) survived only on the most elevated natural ridge in this swamp-forest.Keywords
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