A Preliminary Study of Human Impact on the Vegetation and Microclimate of the Beach and Fordunes on Padre Island National Seashore
Mcatee JW and Drawe DL. 1974. A Preliminary Study of Human Impact on the Vegetation and Microclimate of the Beach and Fordunes on Padre Island National Seashore. Pages 97-136. In National Park Service, Southwest Region: Transactions of Southwest Region Natural Science Conference National Park Service. November 19-21, 1974. National Park Service
Study of the impact of people in the beach areas of Padre Island National Seashore and the Nueces County Park. Includes information on numbers of visitors, vegetation cover, soil moisture, soil salinity, pH, soil and air temperature, wind velocities, atmsopheric salinity, sand deposition, evaporation, precipitation, and relative humidity. Includes recommendations for management.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Mcatee, Jerry; Drawe, D
- Units
- PAIS
- Keywords
- Air Temperature, Beaches, Human Impact, Management, Precipitation, Relative Humidity, Salinity, Sedimentation, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, Vegetation, Wind