Effects of wrack burial in salt-stressed habitats: Batis maritima in a southwest Atlantic salt marsh

Ecography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 630-638

  Pennings, S C ^a   Richards, C L ^a  

^a University of Georgia Marine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RESPONSE; PLANT BURIAL; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; SEAWEED;

ATLANTA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; BATIS MARITIMA;

EID: 0032434290     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1998.tb00556.x     Document Type: Article

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