Effects of sediment slurry enrichment on salt marsh rehabilitation: Plant and soil responses over seven years

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Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 519-528

  Slocum, Matthew G ^a   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a   Kuhn, Nathan L ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT BUDGET; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 25844518447     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02696063     Document Type: Article

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