Ecology: Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of Southern U.S. salt marshes

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5755, 2005, Pages 1803-1806

  Silliman, Brian R ^a   Van Koppel, Johan De ^b   Bertness, Mark D ^c   Stanton, Lee E ^d   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^d  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VEGETATION;

COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS; DIE-OFF EDGES; DROUGHT-INDUCED STRESS; GRAZERS;

ECOLOGY;

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GASTROPOD; SALTMARSH;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GRAZING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT MARSH; SEASHORE; SNAIL; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GASTROPODA;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; GEORGIA; LOUISIANA; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; SNAILS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 29244488564     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1118229     Document Type: Article

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