Plant community structure and temporal variability in a channelized subtropical floodplain

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 393-408

  Toth, Louis A ^a  

^a Vegetation Management Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALISMATACEAE; AXONOPUS FISSIFOLIUS; BACCHARIS; BACCHARIS HALIMIFOLIA; FILICOPHYTA; LUDWIGIA PERUVIANA; MORELLA CERIFERA; MYRICACEAE; PANICUM HEMITOMON; PASPALUM; PASPALUM NOTATUM; POACEAE; PONTEDERIA CORDATA; SAGITTARIA LANCIFOLIA;

EID: 33644609199     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2005)004[0393:PCSATV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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