Long-term changes in abundance and diversity of macrophyte and waterfowl populations in an estuary with exotic macrophytes and improving water quality

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1195-1207

  Rybicki, Nancy B ^a   Landwehr, Jurate M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC PLANT; BIODIVERSITY; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT ATTENUATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MACROPHYTE; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER QUALITY; WATERFOWL;

NORTH AMERICA; POTOMAC ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

ANATIDAE;

EID: 34249742618     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.3.1195     Document Type: Article

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