Recruitment and successional dynamics diversify the shifting habitat mosaic of an alaskan floodplain

River Research and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 671-685

  Mouw, J E B ^a   Chaffin, J L ^b   Whited, D C ^b   Hauer, F R ^b   Matson, P L ^b   Stanford, J A ^b  

^a ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Flooding; Herbivory; Kwethluk River; Primary succession; Recruitment; Secondary succession; Shifting habitat mosaic

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT USE; HERBIVORY; LIFE HISTORY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIVER CHANNEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

ALASKA; KWETHLUK RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880040219     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.2569     Document Type: Article

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