Removal of salt-killed vegetation during tidal restoration of a New England salt marsh: Effects on wrack movement and the establishment of native halophytes

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 268-273

  Smith, Stephen M ^a  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Cod; Common reed (Phragmites australis); Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora); Massachusetts; Salt marsh; Tidal restoration; Wrack

Indexed keywords

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 37249000778     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.25.4.268     Document Type: Article

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