Salt Marshes as Potential Indicators of Global Climate Change

Geography Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 219-236

  Kim, Daehyun ^a   Bartholdy, Jesper ^b   Jung, Soohyun ^a   Cairns, David M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 79955506446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00421.x     Document Type: Review

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