Vegetation engineers marsh morphology through multiple competing stable states

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3259-3263

  Marani, Marco ^a,b   Da Lio, Cristina ^b   D'Alpaos, Andrea ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biogeomorphology; Ecohydrology; Ecotone

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARSH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT; SOIL; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; ZONATION;

DATA COLLECTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84874487452     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218327110     Document Type: Article

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