Salt marsh vegetation change after a short-term tidal restriction in the Changjiang estuary

Wetlands

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 257-266

  Sun, Shucun ^a   Cai, Yongli ^b   Tian, Xingjun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Competition; Salt marsh; Scirpus mariqueter; Scirpuus tabernaemontani

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT; DIKE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SALTMARSH; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHANGJIANG ESTUARY; CHINA; YANGTZE ESTUARY;

SCHOENOPLECTUS TABERNAEMONTANI; SCIRPUS; SCIRPUS MARIQUETER; SCIRPUS TABERNAEMONTANI;

EID: 0043071432     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/5-20     Document Type: Article

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