Robert R. Twilley

TL;DR: A 3-month field study was conducted to examine the effects of Atchafalaya River discharge on nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in the Fourleague Bay system, to document patterns with salinity variation, to evaluate stoichiometric nutrient ratios of nitrogen and phosphorous in the river and bay, and to evaluate the relationship between estuarine freshwater residence time and export of total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) to the Gulf of Mexico.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured litterfall, standing litter crop, and litter turnover rates in scrub, basin, fringe and riverine forests in two contrasting mangrove ecosystems: a carbonate-dominated system in the Southeastern Everglades and a terrigenous-dominated systems in Laguna de Terminos (LT), Mexico.

TL;DR: In this article, a coupled modeling system for hurricane winds, storm surge, waves and sediment transport on the Louisiana coast is presented, and it is used to investigate two fundamental questions: (1) How much sediment is transported and deposited on coastal wetlands during a major hurricane event like Hurricane Gustav (2008), and (2) where is the source of the deposited sediment on the wetland soil surface.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated analysis of coastal deltaic floodplains in the active Atchafalaya Coastal Basin coupled to downstream deltaic estuaries is presented to review how ecosystem properties self-organize around fluvial processes during river re-occupation as part of the delta cycle.