Macro-tidal salt marsh ecosystem response to culvert expansion

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-322

  Bowron, Tony ^a   Neatt, Nancy ^a   van Proosdij, Danika ^b   Lundholm, Jeremy ^b   Graham, Jennie ^a  

^a CB Wetlands and Environmental Specialists Inc   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bay of Fundy; GPAC protocol; LiDAR; Nekton; Restoration monitoring; RSET

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX GLABRIUSCULA; SALICORNIA;

EID: 79955137434     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00602.x     Document Type: Article

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