Restoring salt marshes using small cordgrass, Spartina maritima

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 324-326

  Castillo, Jesús M ^a   Figueroa, Enrique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atriplex portulacoides; Bioengineering; Ecological restoration; Odiel Marshes; Salt marsh; Sarcocornia perennis; Spartina densiflora

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH;

ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX PORTULACOIDES; SARCOCORNIA PERENNIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA; SPARTINA MARITIMA;

EID: 65449129957     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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