Use of experimental disturbances to assess resilience along a known stress gradient

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 181-190

  Slocum, Matthew G ^a   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological indicators; Ecosystem health and integrity; Resilience; Salt and coastal marshes; Sediment deposition; Stability

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER;

ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; SALT AND COASTAL MARSHES; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION;

SEDIMENTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MUDFLAT; RESILIENCE; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 37249004839     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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