Environmental Determinants of Emergent Macrophyte Vegetation in Pacific Northwest Estuarine Tidal Wetlands

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 377-389

  Weilhoefer, Christine L ^a,c   Nelson, Walter G ^a   Clinton, Patrick ^a   Beugli, David M ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use; Oregon; Salinity gradients; Species diversity; USA; Vegetation cover; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL WETLAND; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROPHYTE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION TYPE; WATERSHED;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; CAREX; CAREX LYNGBYEI; DISTICHLIS SPICATA; POACEAE; SARCOCORNIA PACIFICA;

EID: 84874813631     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-012-9569-9     Document Type: Article

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