Effects of shoot stiffness, shoot size and current velocity on scouring sediment from around seedlings and propagules

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 388, Issue , 2009, Pages 293-297

  Bouma, T J ^a   Friedrichs, M ^b   Klaassen, P ^a   Van Wesenbeeck, B K ^a,c   Brun, F G ^a   Temmerman, S ^d   Van Katwijk, M M ^e   Graf, G ^b   Herman, P M J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Current velocity; Hydrodynamics; Salt marsh; Seagrass; Seedling survival; Spartina anglica; Trade offs; Zostera noltii

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; COASTAL ZONE; CURRENT VELOCITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; PIONEER SPECIES; SALTMARSH; SCOUR; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEEDLING; SHOOT; TRADE-OFF; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

PUCCINELLIA; SPARTINA ANGLICA; ZOSTERA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 69849096860     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08130     Document Type: Article

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