A5091483284- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Plant responses to water stress
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Marine and fisheries research
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Louisiana State University
2015-2024
Ecological Society of America
2017
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
2007
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2004
Southwestern University
1995-1999
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
1995
Mangrove forests are highly productive but globally threatened coastal ecosystems, whose role in the carbon budget of zone has long been debated. Here we provide a comprehensive synthesis available data on fluxes mangrove ecosystems. A reassessment global primary production from literature results conservative estimate ∼218 ± 72 Tg C −1 . When using best estimates various sinks (organic export, sediment burial, and mineralization), it appears that >50% fixed by vegetation is unaccounted...
Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of Society for personal use, not redistribution. definitive version was published in 26, no. 3 (2013): 124–131, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2013.54.
We produced a landscape scale map of mean tree height in mangrove forests Everglades National Park (ENP) using the elevation data from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The SRTM was calibrated airborne lidar and high resolution USGS digital model (DEM). resulting has error 2.0 m (RMSE) over pixel 30 m. In addition, we used field to derive relationship between forest stand biomass order spatial distribution standing mangroves for entire Park. estimation showed that most ENP resides...
Hurricanes are recurring high-energy disturbances in coastal regions that change community structure and function of mangrove wetlands. However, most the studies assessing hurricane impacts on mangroves have focused negative effects without considering positive influence hurricane-induced sediment deposition associated nutrient fertilization productivity resilience. Here, we quantified how Hurricane Irma influenced soil pools, vertical accretion, plant phosphorus (P) uptake after its passage...
Rates of direct and coupled nitrification‐denitrification were measured with 15 N isotope techniques in intact sediment cores from fringe, basin, riverine mangroves Terrminos Lagoon, Mexico. We used to evaluate differences denitrification rates. The lack 2 production all amended 200 (or 100) µ mol core ‐1 NH 4 + the high recovery five eight such experiments indicate that was riot important nitrogen transformation during 8–10‐d incubations. However, when we added 450 −1 NO 3 − mangrove, rates...
Abstract Aim We developed a set of statistical models to improve spatial estimates mangrove aboveground biomass ( AGB ) based on the environmental signature hypothesis ESH ). hypothesized that higher tidal amplitudes, river discharge, temperature, direct rainfall and decreased potential evapotranspiration explain observed high . Location Neotropics small portion N earctic region. Methods A universal forest model site‐level structure statistics was validated spatially interpolate at different...
The Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (CGSM) is one of the world's most productive tropical wetlands and that has witnessed some greatest recorded dieback mangroves. Human-driven loss hydrologic connectivity by roads, artificial channels water flow regulation appears to be reason behind mangrove mortality in this ungauged wetland. In study, we determined CGSM's current state combining a remote sensing technique, termed as Wetland Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), with study river...