Impacts of Mississippi River diversions on salinity gradients in a deltaic Louisiana estuary: Ecological and management implications

• Main Authors: Das, Anindita, Justic, Dubravko, Inoue, Masamichi, Hoda, Asif, Huang, Haosheng, Park, Dongho
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Press 2012
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/29152/1/Impacts_of_Mississippi_River_diversions_on_salinity_gradients.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/29152/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272771412002156; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2012.06.005

Large-scale river diversions on the lower Mississippi River are considered to be an important component of wetland restoration efforts in coastal Louisiana. Diversions are used primarily for salinity control but increasingly proposed also as a major way to deliver sediments and nutrients to coastal...