Integrating structural and functional metrics to assess the early success of salt marsh restoration

Ecological Restoration

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 111-140

  Walters, Keith ^a  

^a Wall College of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Enclosure experiments; Feeding preference; Fiddler crabs; Freerange snails; Geukensia demissa; Habitat restoration; Refuge effect; Southeastern marshes; Spartina alterniflora; Success metrics; Tethering

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952954325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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