Prescribed fire and cutting as tools for reducing woody plant succession in a created salt marsh

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 405-416

  Owens, Alaina B ^a   Proffitt, C Edward ^b   Grace, James B ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutting; Fire effects; Iva frutescens; Marsh creation; Salt marsh; Shrub establishment

Indexed keywords

BARK; GROWTH; MORTALITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SALTMARSH; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; WOODY PLANT;

IVA FRUTESCENS;

EID: 34547403659     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-007-9039-5     Document Type: Article

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