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Consequences of Mississippi River diversions on nutrient dynamics of coastal wetland soils and estuarine sediments: A review

Journal

ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
Volume 224, Issue -, Pages 209-216

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2019.04.027

Keywords

Wetlands; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Coastal; Eutrophication

Funding

  1. Louisiana Protection and Restoration Authority Interagency Agreement [4400008905-Task Order 2]

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Coastal Louisiana is dominated by the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain, which is composed of a series of overlapping and truncated sub-delta lobes that formed an extensive coastal wetland - open water shallow bay and low relief upland mosaic across the entire coastal zone (similar to 25,000 km(2)). These coastal wetlands have been eroding at an alarming rate during the past century, coincident with major modifications to the deltaic landscape. One of these former modifications included extensive leveeing of the Mississippi River, essentially isolating the river from the coastal basins. One restoration technique involves re-connecting the previously isolated coastal basins to the river via diversions, which would once again allow the influx of freshwater, sediments and nutrients into the coastal basins. We review issues on potential impacts of nutrient loading from the river as a consequence of river diversions, focused on nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) dynamics including denitrification related to carbon dynamics. We also examined how water residence times in these shallow systems, compared to deeper, often seasonally stratified, coastal systems, are more likely to lead to greater N removal potential in the context of a large scale river diversion helping to reduce N transport to the coastal ocean.

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