Salt marsh vegetation recovery on the Bay of Fundy

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 869-877

  Byers, Stacey E ^a   Chmura, Gail L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; STORM; VEGETATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 38349002984     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02841340     Document Type: Article

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