Understanding the linkages between a tidal freshwater forested wetland and an adjoining bottomland hardwood forest

Brooke Czwartacki; Carl C. Trettin; Timothy J. Callahan

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Understanding the linkages between a tidal freshwater forested wetland and an adjoining bottomland hardwood forest

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Brooke Czwartacki, Carl C. Trettin, Timothy J. Callahan

Year:

2016

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 302 p.

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Abstract

The low-gradient coastal topography of the southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, coupled with large oceanic tidal amplitudes cause rivers that discharge to the coast to exhibit tidal influence of tides far inland. In those reaches, tidal-freshwater forested wetlands (TFFW) occupy floodplains which eventually transition to non-tidal, bottomland hardwood-forested ecosystems.

Parent Publication

Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management - Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds

Citation

Czwartacki, Brooke; Trettin, Carl C.; Callahan, Timothy J. 2016. Understanding the linkages between a tidal freshwater forested wetland and an adjoining bottomland hardwood forest. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. Headwaters to Estuaries: Advances in watershed Science and management. Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015. North Charleston, SC. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 1 p.