Isotopic signatures and nutrient relations of plants inhabiting brackish wetlands in the northeastern coastal plain of Venezuela

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-64

  Medina, Ernesto ^a,b   Francisco, Marta ^a   Quilice, Antonio ^c  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^c PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Coastal wetlands; Mangroves; Nutrients; Salinity

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; COASTAL PLAIN; COASTAL WETLAND; FLOODING; MANGROVE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; POTASSIUM; SEDIMENTATION; SODIUM;

PARIA PENINSULA; SOUTH AMERICA; SUCRE [VENEZUELA]; VENEZUELA;

CHRYSOBALANUS ICACO; CRINUM; CRINUM ERUBESCENS; LAGENOCARPUS GUIANENSIS; MAURITIA FLEXUOSA; PARIA; PTEROCARPUS; PTEROCARPUS OFFICINALIS; RHIZOPHORACEAE; TABEBUIA;

EID: 37549004363     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-007-9056-4     Document Type: Article

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