Vegetation changes over a four-decade period in Dowd Morass, a brackish-water wetland of the Gippsland Lakes, south-eastern Australia

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 403-418

  Boon, Paul I ^a   Raulings, Elisa J ^b   Roache, Michael ^b   Morris, Kay ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dowd Morass; Gippsland; Melaleuca; Microtopography; Phragmites; Wetland

Indexed keywords

GRASS; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; SALINITY; SALINIZATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE; WETLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GIPPSLAND LAKES; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES; MELALEUCA; MELALEUCA ERICIFOLIA; MELALEUCA QUINQUENERVIA; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 58149291493     PISSN: 00359211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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