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REPORT DOCUMENTATION 

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1. REPORT NO. 



FWS/OBS-82/69 



3. Recipient's Accession No. 



4. Title and Subtitle 



Ecological Characterization of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain 

 Region: A Narrative with Management Recommendations 



5. Report Date 



September 1983 



7. Author ( s)L. Bahf, Jr., R. COstanZa, J. Day, Jr., S. Bayley, 

 C.Neill, S. Leibowitz, and J. Fruci 



8. Performing Organization Rept. No 



9. Performing Organization Name and Address 



Coastal Ecology Laboratory 

 Center for Wetland Resources 

 Louisiana State University 

 Baton Rouge, LA 70803 



10. Project/Task/Work Unit No. 



11. Contract(C) or Grant(G) No. 



(C) 



<G) 



12. Sponsoring Organization Name and Address 



National Coastal Ecosystems Team 



Division of Biological .! 

 Fish and Wildlife Servige 



Services 



U . S . Department ' of ~the ' Interi or 

 Washington, DC 20240 



Minerals Management Service 

 U.S. Department of the Interior 

 P.O. Box 7944 

 Metairie, LA 70010 



13. Type of Report & Period Covered 



15. Supplementary Notes 



16. Abstract (Limit: 200 » 



region's ecology 

 et al. 1983) was 

 the major ecolog 

 are intended to 

 questions. This 

 problems, their 

 region, their hi 

 proposed to deal 

 assembled in the 

 rationally. 



ords) j n -j s report is a descriptive narrative aimed at characterizing the 

 and its environmental problems. A companion technical report (Costanza 

 also prepared that includes more detailed quantitative descriptions of 

 ical habitats of the region. The data collected in the technical report 

 serve as a data base for addressing specific environmental management 

 narrative report summarizes: (1) the major classes of environmental 

 complex origins and interdependences, (2) the natural systems of the 

 stories, structure, and function, (3) the recommendations that have been 

 with the environmental problems of the region, and (4) how the data base 

 technical report might help in dealing with these problems more 



17. Document Analysis a. Descriptors 



Habitats 



b. Identifiers/Open-Ended Terms 



Wetland resources, coastal zone management, Mississippi Deltaic Plain, coastal habitats, 

 environmental management, Louisiana, Mississippi 



c. COSATI Field/Group 



18. Availability Statement 



Unlimited 



19. Security Class (This Report) 



Unclassified 



20. Security Class (This Page) 



Unclassified 



21. No. of Pages 



189 



(See ANSI-Z39.18) 



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