Site condition, structure, and growth of baldcypress along tidal/non-tidal salinity gradients

Wetlands

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 505-519

  Krauss, Ken W ^a   Duberstein, Jamie A ^b   Doyle, Thomas W ^a   Conner, William H ^b   Day, Richard H ^a   Inabinette, L Wayne ^b   Whitbeck, Julie L ^c  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Fertility; Flooding; Hydroperiod; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Tidal swamp

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; GROWTH RATE; HYDROPERIOD; PHOSPHORUS; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; STAND STRUCTURE; SWAMP;

UNITED STATES;

TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 69349096481     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/08-77.1     Document Type: Article

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