Quantifying ecological filters: The relative impact of herbivory, neighbours, and sediment on an oligohaline marsh

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1006-1016

  Geho, Ellen M ^a   Campbell, Daniel ^a   Keddy, Paul A ^a  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COASTAL WETLAND; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT TYPE; HERBIVORY; MARSH; MORPHOLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CALAMUS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 34248344604     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15217.x     Document Type: Article

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