Vascular plants of a Delaware River tidal freshwater wetland and adjacent terrestrial areas: Seed bank and vegetation comparisons of reference and constructed marshes and annotated species list

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 323-354

  Leck, Mary Allessio ^a   Leck, Charles F ^b  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Constructed wetland; Floristic survey; Reference marsh; Tidal freshwater marsh; Wetland seed bank

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; SEED BANK; SPECIES INVENTORY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION;

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

ASTERACEAE; CAREX; CYPERACEAE; LYTHRACEAE; LYTHRUM SALICARIA; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; POACEAE; POLYGONUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 23144455094     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3159/1095-5674(2005)132[323:VPOADR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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