Environmental gradients, plant distribution, and species richness in arctic salt marsh near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-233

  Funk, Dale W ^a   Noel, Lynn E ^a   Freedman, Adam H ^a  

^a LGL Alaska Research Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Conductivity; Puccinellia phryganodes; Salt marsh; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; SALTMARSH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PRUDHOE BAY; UNITED STATES;

CAREX; DUPONTIA FISCHERI; DUPONTIA FISHERI; ERIOPHORUM; ERIOPHORUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; PUCCINELLIA; PUCCINELLIA PHRYGANODES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 3142752783     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WETL.0000034074.81373.65     Document Type: Article

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