Seagrass-Sediment Feedback: An Exploration Using a Non-recursive Structural Equation Model

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1380-1393

  Folmer, Eelke O ^a,b   van der Geest, Matthijs ^b   Jansen, Erik ^a   Olff, Han ^a   Michael Anderson, T ^c   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b   van Gils, Jan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abiotic stress; Banc d'Arguin; feedback; intertidal mudflat; Mauritania; remote sensing; sedimentation; simultaneity bias; soft bottom ecology; Zostera noltii

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GRAIN SIZE; GROWTH; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MUDFLAT; POREWATER; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENTATION; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

BANC D'ARGUIN NATIONAL PARK; MAURITANIA;

ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 84870577844     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9591-6     Document Type: Article

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