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Chief: Carroll L. Cordes, Ph.D.
(cordesc@usgs.gov)
Phone: 337 266-8636
Fax: 337 266-8592
Provide ecological, modeling, and restoration research on forested wetlands in the South.
Capabilities
Most forest research at the National Wetlands Research Center focuses on forested wetlands, the most common and widespread wetland type in the South. They include bottomland hardwood forests, cypress-tupelo swamps, and mangrove forests, and are of great economic and ecological value. Despite dramatic losses this century (80% of bottomland hardwoods in the lower Mississippi Valley alone), southern forested wetlands still account for more than a third of all wetlands in the contiguous 48 states.
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