Are all intertidal wetlands naturally created equal? Bottlenecks, thresholds and knowledge gaps to mangrove and saltmarsh ecosystems

Biological Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 346-366

  Friess, Daniel A ^a   Krauss, Ken W ^b   Horstman, Erik M ^a,c   Balke, Thorsten ^a,d   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^d,e   Galli, Demis ^a   Webb, Edward L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dispersal; Establishment; Gene flow; Life history; Propagule; Restoration; Salt marsh; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 80055071953     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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