Environmental limitations on recruitment from seed in invasive Spartina densiflora on a southern European salt marsh

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 727-732

  Mateos Naranjo, Enrique ^a   Redondo Gómez, Susana ^a   Luque, Carlos J ^b   Castellanos, Eloy M ^b   Davy, Anthony J ^c   Figueroa, M Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biotic pressure; environmental gradient; germination; invasive alien; redox potential

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELEVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMINATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PROPAGULE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REDOX POTENTIAL; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; SEED PRODUCTION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GULF OF CADIZ; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX PORTULACOIDES; SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 50449104763     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.06.017     Document Type: Article

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