Biogeochemicl and surface elevation controls over tidally influenced freshwater forested wetlands as they transition to marsh

William Conner; Ken W. Krauss; Gregory B. Noe; Jamie A. Duberstein; Nicole Cormier; Camille L. Stagg

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Biogeochemicl and surface elevation controls over tidally influenced freshwater forested wetlands as they transition to marsh

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Authors:

William Conner, Ken W. Krauss, Gregory B. Noe, Jamie A. Duberstein, Nicole Cormier, Camille L. Stagg

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

Many coastal ecosystems along the south Atlantic are transitioning from forested wetlands to marsh due to increasing tidal inundation and saltwater intrusion primarily attributed to global climate change processes. In 2004, we established long-term research sites in Georgia, South Carolina, and Louisiana to understand how climate factors (temperature, precipitation, streamflow, sea-level rise, droughts, and hurricanes) interact to elevate soil salinities and flooding that collectively foster forest dieback and habitat conversion in tidal freshwater forested wetlands of the Southeast.

Parent Publication

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

Citation

Conner, William; Krauss, Ken W.; Noe, Gregory B.; Duberstein, Jamie A.; Cormier, Nicole; Stagg, Camille L. 2016. Biogeochemicl and surface elevation controls over tidally influenced freshwater forested wetlands as they transition to marsh. 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. 1 p.