Status and Trends of Hydrologic Modification, Reduction in Sediment Availability and Habitat Loss/Modification in the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuarine System
Date
1995
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Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program
Abstract
The purpose of this report is to evaluate the current status and recent trends in factors contributing to these priority problems: habitat loss and modification; hydologic modification; and reduction in sediment availability. The most striking trend is the massive conversion of land to open water from a combined influence of factors with subsidence the most important and most pervasive.
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338 pgs.
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mississippi river delta, estuarine area conservation, estuaries, estuarine sediments, wetland hydrology