Windows of opportunity: Thresholds to mangrove seedling establishment on tidal flats

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 440, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-9

  Balke, Thorsten ^a   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^a,b   Horstman, Erik M ^c   Webb, Edward L ^d   Erftemeijer, Paul L A ^a,e   Herman, Peter M J ^b  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e SINCLAIR KNIGHT MERZ   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avicennia; Colonization; Flume; Mangrove restoration; Pioneer; Seedling establishment; Succession; Threshold

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HYDROCHORY; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; LIMITING FACTOR; MANGROVE; PIONEER SPECIES; PROPAGULE; REFORESTATION; ROOT SYSTEM; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; THRESHOLD; TIDAL FLAT;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA ALBA;

EID: 80055097659     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09364     Document Type: Article

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