A field comparison of indicators of sublethal stress in the salt-marsh grass Spartina patens

Estuaries

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 48-65

  Ewing, Kern ^a   Mckee, Karen L ^b   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPARTINA PATENS; HYMENACHNE; POACEAE;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; SALTMARSH GRASS; STRESS INDICATOR;

USA, LOUISIANA, LAKE DE CADE;

EID: 0030619440     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352719     Document Type: Article

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