Aboveground production in Southeastern floodplain forests: A test of the subsidy-stress hypothesis

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 370-384

  Megonigal, J Patrick ^a,e   Conner, William H ^b   Kroeger, Steven ^c   Sharitz, Rebecca R ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Forest Resources Baruch   (United States)

^c Savannah River Ecology Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flooding regime and net primary production; Flooding stress and floodplain forest production; Floodplain forests, southeastern United States; Hydrologic disturbance and net primary production; Hydrologic disturbance in floodplain forests; Louisiana, USA; Net primary production in bottomland hardwood forest; South Carolina, USA

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FOREST; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUBSIDY-STRESS HYPOTHESIS;

USA, LOUISIANA; USA, SOUTH CAROLINA;

EID: 0030616860     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0370:APISFF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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