Effects of increased inundation and wrack deposition on a high salt marsh plant community

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 944-954

  Tolley, Patricia M ^a,b   Christian, Robert R ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; DETRITUS; FLOODING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SALTMARSH;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

DISTICHLIS SPICATA; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 0033381880     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353074     Document Type: Article

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