Salt marsh vegetation response to edaphic and topographic changes from upland sedimentation in a Pacific estuary

Wetlands

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 813-829

  Byrd, Kristin B ^a   Kelly, Maggi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees (CART); Salix lasiolepis; Salt marsh; Sedimentation; Watershed land use

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ESTUARY; HERB; PLANT COMMUNITY; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL PROPERTY;

CALIFORNIA; ELKHORN SLOUGH BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

SALICORNIA; SALICORNIA VIRGINICA; SALIX; SALIX LASIOLEPIS; SCIRPUS; TYPHA;

EID: 33845742939     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2006)26[813:SMVRTE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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