Response of a subtropical estuarine marsh to local climatic change in the southwestern gulf of Mexico

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1242-1254

  Forbes, Margaret G ^a,b   Dunton, Kenneth H ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOOD; MARSH; MORTALITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SALINITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; NUECES BAY; NUECES RIVER; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; SALICORNIA BIGELOVII; SALICORNIA VIRGINICA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 36849001245     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02781824     Document Type: Article

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