Pollen-vegetation relationships in Bay of Fundy salt marshes

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 663-670

  Beecher, C Beth ^a   Chmura, Gail L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glaux maritima; Palynology; Potentilla anserina; Spergularia canadensis; Wetland

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTIONS; POLLEN VEGETATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; POLLEN; RECONSTRUCTION; SALTMARSH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

CYPERACEAE; GLAUX; GLAUX MARITIMA; LIGUSTICUM; LIGUSTICUM SCOTICUM; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MARITIMA; POTENTILLA; POTENTILLA ANSERINA; SPERGULARIA; SPERGULARIA CANADENSIS; TRIGLOCHIN; TRIGLOCHIN MARITIMUM;

EID: 3543065860     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/b04-037     Document Type: Article

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