Subsurface flow and vegetation patterns in tidal environments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Ursino, Nadia ^a   Silvestri, Sonia ^a,b   Marani, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Magistrate Alle Acque di Venezia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Tidal environments

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION; WATER;

BIOTIC COMPONENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

ECOHYDROLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SALTMARSH; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TIDAL CYCLE;

EID: 3042649655     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002702     Document Type: Article

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