Flow-induced reconfiguration of buoyant and flexible aquatic vegetation

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2003-2017

  Luhar, Mitul ^a   Nepf, Heidi M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC PLANT; BUOYANCY; DRAG; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; FLUME EXPERIMENT; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAGRASS; STIFFNESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 80052828218     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2003     Document Type: Article

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