Environmental controls on multiscale spatial patterns of salt marsh vegetation

Physical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-78

  Kim, Daehyun ^a   Cairns, David ^b   Bartholdy, Jesper ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distance from sea water; Marsh platform; Micro elevation; Spatial scaling; Tidal creek

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COASTAL ZONE; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAWATER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION;

EID: 77950139324     PISSN: 02723646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3646.31.1.58     Document Type: Article

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