Fertilization Effects on Elevation Change and Belowground Carbon Balance in a Long Island Sound Tidal Marsh

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 201-211

  Anisfeld, Shimon C ^a   Hill, Troy D ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Belowground production; CO 2 flux; Marsh drowning; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Spartina alterniflora

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ELEVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MARSH; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOIL CARBON;

LONG ISLAND SOUND; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 84855246309     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9440-4     Document Type: Article

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