Why is it important to study water transport timescales in the Mississippi River Delta, and what can it reveal about resilience planning?

Water transport timescales are great indicators of how water and the material it carries move in and out of different part of a landscape. How long it takes water to move through different parts of the delta ecosystem yields insights into much much and where sediments will be deposited, and provides valuable information about the dynamics of nutrients that influence wetland water and soil quality.