Seasonal and vertical demography of dead portions of shoots of smooth cordgrass in a south-temperate saltmarsh

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-335

  Newell, Steven Y ^a   Arsuffi, Thomas L ^b   Palm, Laura A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fallen litter; Saltmarsh; Smooth cordgrass; Spartina alterniflora; Standing dead biomass; Vertical profile

Indexed keywords

DEAD MATTER; DEMOGRAPHY; SALTMARSH; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

SPARINTA ALTERNIFOLIA;

EID: 0032051946     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(98)00052-7     Document Type: Article

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