Can conservation biologists rely on established community structure rules to manage novel systems? ⋯ Not in salt marshes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 413-422

  Fariña, José M ^a,c   Silliman, Brian R ^b   Bertness, Mark D ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chile; Competition; Physical stress; Plant zonation; Salt marshes; Sarcocornia fruticosa; Schoenoplectus californicus; Selliera radicans; Spartina densiflora

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SALTMARSH; SEDGE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

CHILE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WETLANDS;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

SARCOCORNIA; SARCOCORNIA FRUTICOSA; SCHOENOPLECTUS; SCHOENOPLECTUS CALIFORNICUS; SELLIERA; SELLIERA RADICANS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 65349170927     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1000.1     Document Type: Article

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