Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Mar Freshw Res. 2017;68(12):2253–2265. doi: 10.1071/MF16372

Table 4. Peak caesium-137 (137Cs) and calculated accretion rates (mean ± s.d.) for palustrine forested and emergent marsh reference wetlands within the Southern Coastal Plain (SCP).

Values within a row followed by the same letter do not differ from one another at P = 0.05

Variable mean (±s.d.) SCP palustrine forested wetlands (n = 6) SCP palustrine emergent marsh wetlands (n = 6)
137Cs peak depth (mm) 26.7 ± 15.1a 33.3 ± 23.4a
Accretion rate (mm year−1) 0.6 ± 0.3a 0.7 ± 0.5a