The interaction between science and policy in the control of Phragmites in oligohaline marshes of Delaware Bay

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 223-227

  Teal, John M ^a,b   Peterson, Susan ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Teal Partners   (United States)

Author keywords

Herbicide; Phragmites; Public concern; Salt marsh; Spartina

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HERBICIDE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH;

DELAWARE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 16344362903     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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