Restoring assemblages of salt marsh halophytes in the presence of a rapidly colonizing dominant species

Wetlands

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 667-676

  Armitage, Anna R ^a,b   Boyer, Katharyn E ^a,c   Vance, Richard R ^a   Ambrose, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Competition; Diversity; Pickleweed; Recruitment; Restoration; Richness; Succession

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; COLONIZATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; HALOPHYTE; INVASIVE SPECIES; SALTMARSH; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; VASCULAR PLANT;

CALIFORNIA; MUGU LAGOON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DISTICHLIS SPICATA; FRANKENIA SALINA; JAUMEA CARNOSA; SALICORNIA; SALICORNIA VIRGINICA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33845759323     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2006)26[667:RAOSMH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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