How waterlogged microsites help an annual plant persist among salt marsh perennials

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 300-312

  Varty, Alison K ^a   Zedler, Joy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Depressions; Microtopography; Restoration; Salicornia bigelovii; Salicornia virginica; Tidal pools; Topographic heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; COEXISTENCE; DICOTYLEDON; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODING; HETEROGENEITY; LIFE CYCLE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PERSISTENCE; REDOX POTENTIAL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SURVIVAL; WATERLOGGING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

SALICORNIA; SALICORNIA BIGELOVII; SALICORNIA VIRGINICA;

EID: 46249132423     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-007-9019-2     Document Type: Article

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