Constructed shallow zones along navigation canals: Vegetation establishment and change in relation to environmental characteristics

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 453-471

  Boedeltje, Ger ^a   Smolders, Alfons J P ^a   Roelofs, Jan G M ^a   Van Groenendael, Jan M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backwater; Canal bank restoration; Multivariate analysis; Pore water characteristics; Sediment accretion; Submerged aquatic macrophytes; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; CANAL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER QUALITY;

CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CHARA VULGARIS; ELODEA NUTTALLII; LEMNA MINOR; PECTINATUS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POLYRHIZA; POTAMOGETON PUSILLUS; SPIRODELA POLYRRHIZA; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

EID: 0035707836     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.487     Document Type: Article

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