Does low temperature prevent Spartina alterniflora from expanding toward the austral-most salt marshes?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 553-561

  Idaszkin, Yanina L ^a,b   Bortolus, Alejandro ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cold; Frost; Geographic expansion; Patagonia; Salt marshes; Spartinaalterniflora

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DOMINANCE; FROST; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASS; HUMIDITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOW TEMPERATURE; MUDFLAT; PHOTOPERIOD; SALTMARSH; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PATAGONIA;

SARCOCORNIA PERENNIS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 79952744088     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9844-4     Document Type: Article

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