Caribbean mangroves adjust to rising sea level through biotic controls on change in soil elevation

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 545-556

  Mckee, Karen L ^a   Cahoon, Donald R ^b   Feller, Ilka C ^c  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Decomposition; Elevation change; Habitat stability; Holocene; Nutrients; Radiocarbon; Rhizophora; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; COASTAL ZONE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT QUALITY; MANGROVE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PEAT; ROOT SYSTEM; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA; HONDURAS; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 34547998320     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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