Salt spray Induces osmotic adjustment and tissue Rigidity in Smooth Cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora (Loisel.)

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 917-925

  Touchette, Brant W ^a   Rhodes, Kirsten L ^a   Smith, Gracen A ^a   Poole, Mariana ^a  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal salt marshes; Plant water relations; Salt spray; Spartina alterniflora; Water balance; Water potential

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASS; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROCOSM; OSMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; RIGIDITY; SALTMARSH; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WATER BUDGET;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 70350068550     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-009-9178-4     Document Type: Article

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