Population variation in growth response to flooding of three marsh grasses

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-47

  Lessmann, Jeannine M ^b   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^b   Hester, Mark W ^a,b   McKee, Karen L ^b  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flooding; Intraspecific variation; Louisiana; Marsh restoration; Panicum hemitomon; Spartina alterniflora; Spartina patens

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS PARTITIONING; FLOODING; GROWTH; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF ELONGATION; WETLAND;

USA, LOUISIANA; USA, TEXAS;

HYMENACHNE; PANICUM HEMITOMON; POACEAE; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 0030618338     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(96)00251-0     Document Type: Article

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