Intense storms and the delivery of materials that relieve nutrient limitations in mangroves of an arid zone estuary

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 514-522

  Lovelock, Catherine E ^a   Feller, Ilka C ^b   Adame, Maria Fernanda ^a   Reef, Ruth ^a   Penrose, Helen M ^a   Wei, Lili ^a   Ball, Marilyn C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

15N; Avicennia marina; Cyclone Pancho; Exmouth Gulf; Giralia Bay; nitrogen; phosphate; resorption efficiency; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOOD DEPOSIT; GROWTH RESPONSE; MANGROVE; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; RESORPTION; SALINITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SENESCENCE; SOIL PROFILE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 79958151910     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP11027     Document Type: Article

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