Recovery of a northern New England salt marsh plant community from winter icing

Oecologia

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 616-626

  Ewanchuk, Patrick J ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Competition; Facilitation; Plant ecology; Redox

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ANOXIA; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FREEZING; SALTMARSH; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; ICE; NEW ENGLAND; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141457855     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1303-7     Document Type: Article

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