Natural processes in delta restoration: Application to the Mississippi Delta

C Paola, RR Twilley, DA Edmonds… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Restoration of river deltas involves diverting sediment and water from major channels into
adjoining drowned areas, where the sediment can build new land and provide a platform for …

Estimating the provision of ecosystem services by Gulf of Mexico coastal wetlands

VD Engle - Wetlands, 2011 - Springer
Gulf of Mexico (GOM) coastal wetlands contribute to human well-being by providing many
ecosystem services. The GOM region continues to experience substantial losses of coastal …

[图书][B] Biogeochemistry of wetlands: science and applications

KR Reddy, RD DeLaune, PW Inglett - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The globally important nature of wetland ecosystems has led to their increased protection
and restoration as well as their use in engineered systems. Underpinning the beneficial …

Reducing Nitrogen Loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin: Strategies to Counter a Persistent Ecological Problem: Ecotechnology—the use of …

WJ Mitsch, JW Day, JW Gilliam, PM Groffman… - …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
A partial reduction in the quantity of nutrients reaching the Gulf of Mexico, particularly nitrate–
nitrogen, can be accomplished through several general approaches and specific techniques …

Pattern and process of land loss in the Mississippi Delta: a spatial and temporal analysis of wetland habitat change

JW Day, LD Britsch, SR Hawes, GP Shaffer, DJ Reed… - Estuaries, 2000 - Springer
An earlier investigation (Turner 1997) concluded that most of the coastal wetland loss in
Louisiana was caused by the effects of canal dredging, that loss was near zero in the …

[图书][B] Ecological engineering and ecosystem restoration

WJ Mitsch, SE Jørgensen - 2003 - books.google.com
Page 1 William J. Mitsch and Sven Erik Jørgensen ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING and
ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION Page 2 Page 3 ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND ECOSYSTEM …

Restoration of wetlands in the Mississippi–Ohio–Missouri (MOM) River Basin: Experience and needed research

WJ Mitsch, JW Day Jr - Ecological Engineering, 2006 - Elsevier
An ecological and hydrologic restoration of the Mississippi–Ohio–Missouri (MOM) Basin in
the United States is proposed as the solution to the reccurring hypoxic conditions in the Gulf …

Nitrate-nitrogen retention in wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin

WJ Mitsch, JW Day, L Zhang, RR Lane - Ecological engineering, 2005 - Elsevier
Nitrate-nitrogen retention as a result of river water diversions is compared in experimental
wetland basins in Ohio for 18 wetland-years (9 years× 2 wetland basins) and a large …

Mississippi river sediment diversions and coastal wetland sustainability: Synthesis of responses to freshwater, sediment, and nutrient inputs

T Elsey-Quirk, SA Graham, IA Mendelssohn… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Management and restoration of coastal wetlands require insight into how inundation,
salinity, and the availability of mineral sediment and nutrients interact to influence ecosystem …

Hydrological connectivity in river deltas: The first‐order importance of channel‐island exchange

M Hiatt, P Passalacqua - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Deltaic systems are composed of distributary channels and interdistributary islands. While
previous work has focused either on the channels or on the islands, here we study the …