Effects of regular salt marsh haying on marsh plants, algae, invertebrates and birds at Plum Island Sound, Massachusetts

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 469-487

  Buchsbaum, Robert N ^a   Deegan, Linda A ^b   Horowitz, Julie ^b   Garritt, Robert H ^b   Giblin, Anne E ^b   Ludlam, John P ^c   Shull, David H ^d  

^a Massachusetts Audubon Society   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal wetlands, haying; Orchestia; Salt marsh; Shorebirds; Spartina; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALGA; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL WETLAND; DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVERTEBRATE; REGROWTH; SALTMARSH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TILLERING; WADER; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; PLUM ISLAND SOUND; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; AVES; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MELAMPUS; ORCHESTIA; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 71549148384     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-008-9125-3     Document Type: Article

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