Dissolved iron supply limits early growth of estuarine mangroves

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3229-3241

  Alongi, Daniel M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Iron; Iron reduction; Iron utilization; Mangrove species; Plant growth; Plant soil relations

Indexed keywords

IRON;

BACTERIUM; CHLOROPHYLL; DICOTYLEDON; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GROWTH RATE; IRON; MANGROVE; MESOCOSM; PHYTOMASS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SAPLING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; AVICENNIA; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SOIL;

AVICENNIA; ECOSYSTEM; IRON; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SOIL;

AVICENNIA MARINA; BRUGUIERA GYMNORHIZA; CERIOPS TAGAL; RHIZOPHORA APICULATA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; XYLOCARPUS MOLUCCENSIS;

EID: 78249274944     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2142.1     Document Type: Article

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