Effect of improved tidal flushing and competitive interactions at the boundary between salt marsh and pasture

Estuaries

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 807-818

  Streever, W J ^a   Genders, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PASTURE; SALTMARSH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIDAL FLUSHING;

AUSTRALIA; KOORAGANG ISLAND; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; BUBALUS; CHENOPODIACEAE; CRITHMUM MARITIMUM; SARCOCORNIA; SARCOCORNIA QUINQUEFLORA; STENOTAPHRUM SECUNDATUM; UROCHLOA MUTICA;

EID: 0031440688     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352253     Document Type: Article

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