Mechanisms mediating plant distributions across estuarine landscapes in a low-latitude tidal estuary

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-100

  Guo, Hongyu ^a   Pennings, Steven C ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Altamaha River estuary Georgia USA; Biotic interaction; Competition; Estuary; Facilitation; Flooding; Physical gradient; Salinity; Tidal marsh; Transplant experiments; Zonation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOODING; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARSH; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; RIVER; SEA; TIME; TSUNAMI; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEORGIA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANTS; RIVERS; TIDAL WAVES; TIME FACTORS;

ALTAMAHA ESTUARY; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858642599     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0487.1     Document Type: Article

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