Marsh vegetation patterns and soil phosphorus gradients in the everglades ecosystem

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-163

  Doren, Robert F ^a   Armentano, Thomas V ^a   Whiteaker, Louis D ^a,c   Jones, Ronald D ^b  

^a Everglades/Dry Tortugas Natl Parks   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Eutrophication; Freshwater marsh; Macrophytes

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SOIL; VEGETATION;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EUTROPHICATION; MACROPHYTE; PHOSPHORUS; WETLAND;

USA, FLORIDA, EVERGLADES;

CLADIUM JAMAICENSE; CYPERACEAE; TYPHA; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS; TYPHACEAE;

EID: 0030618333     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(96)01079-0     Document Type: Article

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