How will warming affect the salt marsh foundation species Spartina patens and its ecological role?

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 479-487

  Gedan, Keryn B ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem engineer; Epifauna; Salt marsh die off

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DESICCATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIFAUNA; GRASS; REFUGE; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; WARMING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GLOBAL WARMING; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WETLANDS;

NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 77956648743     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1661-x     Document Type: Article

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