Associations between the plant communities of floodplain wetlands, water regime and wetland type

River Research and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 866-876

  Barrett, Rose ^a   Nielsen, Daryl L ^b,c   Croome, Roger ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic vegetation; Floodplain wetlands; Water regimes; Wetland morphology

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FLOODPLAIN; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; LAKE HUME; MURRAY RIVER;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 77957170145     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1299     Document Type: Article

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