Littoraria irrorata growth and survival in a sediment-restored salt marsh

Wetlands

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 643-652

  Stagg, Camille L ^a,b   Mendelssohn, Irving A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional equivalency; Littoraria irrorata; Restoration; Salt marsh; Secondary productivity; Sediment slurry addition; Spartina alterniflora

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SLURRY; SNAIL; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURVIVORSHIP;

LITTORARIA IRRORATA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 84864039865     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-012-0297-5     Document Type: Article

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