Differences in Sedge Fen Vegetation Upstream and Downstream from a Managed Impoundment

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-220

  Kowalski, Kurt P ^a   Wilcox, Douglas A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEN; FLOW REGULATION; HYDROLOGY; IMPOUNDMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND;

MICHIGAN; SENEY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; UNITED STATES;

CASTOR FIBER;

EID: 0142060849     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2003)150[0199:DISFVU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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