The role of vegetation in determining patterns of the accretion of salt marsh sediment

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 139, Issue , 1998, Pages 389-399

  Boorman, L A ^a   Garbutt, A ^b   Barratt, D ^b  

^a The Maylands   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BIOTIC FACTOR; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION; VEGETATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032463556     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.139.01.29     Document Type: Article

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