Vegetation and elevational gradients within a bottomland hardwood forest of southeastern Louisiana

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-30

  Wall, Dennis P ^a,b   Darwin, Steven P ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; FLOOD; PLANT COMMUNITY; TOLERANCE; WOODY PLANT; ZONATION;

BAYOU SAUVAGE; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

CELTIS LAEVIGATA; DAUBENTONIA; DAUBENTONIA DRUMMONDII; QUERCUS; QUERCUS VIRGINIANA; SABAL; SABAL MINOR; SALIX; SALIX NIGRA; SAPIUM SEBIFERUM; SESBANIA DRUMMONDII;

EID: 0032767579     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)142[0017:VAEGWA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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