Microscale spatial distribution of Phragmites australis (common reed) invasion into Spartina patens (salt hay)-dominated communities in brackish tidal marsh

Biological Invasions

Volumn 1, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 137-148

  Windham, Lisamarie ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems; Hollow; Hummock; Marsh; Topography

Indexed keywords

PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 0037811069     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1010016319074     Document Type: Article

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