The importance of water regimes operating at small spatial scales for the diversity and structure of wetland vegetation

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 701-715

  Raulings, Elisa J ^a   Morris, Kay ^a   Roache, Michael C ^a   Boon, Paul I ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Plant functional groups; Water regimes; Wetland condition; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950111802     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02311.x     Document Type: Article

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