Community Structure and Abiotic Determinants of Salt Marsh Plant Zonation Vary Across Topographic Gradients

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 459-469

  Cui, Bao Shan ^a   He, Qiang ^a,b   An, Yuan ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Estuary; Flooding; Salinity; Salt marsh; Wetlands; Yellow River Delta

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODING; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; SHADING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WETLAND; ZONATION;

CHINA; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER ESTUARY;

EID: 79953199349     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-010-9364-4     Document Type: Article

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