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| Dynamics of Land Building and Ecological Succession in a Prograding Deltaic Floodplain, Wax Lake Delta, LA, USA | |
| Bevington;Azure Elizabeth | |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 学位授予单位 | LSU |
| 英文摘要 | Deltas are globally important locations of diverse ecosystems, human settlement and economic activity that are threatened by reduced sediment delivery, accelerated sea level rise, and subsidence. In this dissertation I investigated a number of aspects of the ecosystem development over time within an actively prograding river dominated delta along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. I outlined a conceptual model of deltaic floodplain wetland establishment and succession focused on the vegetated deltaic floodplain ecosystem, which includes subtidal, intertidal and supratidal zones. This was used to guide the experimental design and statistically driven hypothesis testing in order to ascertain the validity of the processes outlined therein. I attempted to determine how sediment surface elevation of delta floodplain wetlands changed in a prograding delta as a result of flooding, hurricanes, and cold front passage, and to compare the patterns of change between years. I also investigated the patterns in island edge cross-sectional morphology over time within a chronosequence framework which encompassed the entire period of subaerial expression of the Wax Lake Delta (WLD) in Louisiana, USA. The zonation and patterns of the herbaceous vegetation community were also investigated in response the elevation as well as hurricane storm surge passage. The forest structure of Salix nigra (black willow) on deltaic floodplain islands, was investigated in response to the estimated age of the stand, (i.e. time since establishment) and the major river floods, using both the chronosequence map and aerial imagery analysis of willow stands. Based on these finding I suggest refinements and expansion of the conceptual model to allow for inclusion of the temporal aspect of the ecosystem as a whole, which at any one time consists of numerous phases of ecological development. The findings of this dissertation and the proposed refinements of the conceptual model add to a better understanding of the deltaic floodplain ecosystem and provide a framework on which to investigate further questions of ecological development. |
| 英文关键词 | Oceanography |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| URL | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-10212016-115651 |
| 来源机构 | LSU |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/250289 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bevington;Azure Elizabeth. Dynamics of Land Building and Ecological Succession in a Prograding Deltaic Floodplain, Wax Lake Delta, LA, USA[D]. LSU,2016. |
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