Response of wetland vegetation to the post-1986 decrease in Lake St. Clair water levels: Seed-bank emergence and beginnings of the Phragmites australis invasion

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 270-277

  Wilcox, Douglas A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Dickinson Island; Lake levels; Lake St. Clair; Phragmites australis; Seed bank

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; COMMON REED; DATA SETS; DICKINSON ISLAND; EXPOSED SOIL; GREAT LAKES; INVASION PROCESS; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE LEVELS; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; NATIVE SPECIES; PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PHRAGMITES GROWTH; PROPAGULES; RIVER DELTAS; SEED BANK; SPATIAL EXPANSION; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION; WETLAND PLANTS; WETLAND VEGETATION;

WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

LAKES;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; GROWTH; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE LEVEL; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; REEDBED; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SAINT CLAIR; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 84860605342     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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