Relative Impacts of Natural Stressors on Life History Traits Underlying Resilience of Intertidal Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.)

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1006-1013

  Yang, Sylvia ^a   Wheat, Elizabeth E ^b   Horwith, Micah J ^b   Ruesink, Jennifer L ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct and indirect effects; Recovery; Seagrass; Sexual and asexual reproduction; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DESICCATION; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EQUATION; FLOWERING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESILIENCE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEAGRASS; SEEDLING; SHOOT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SALISH SEA;

ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84881550723     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9609-0     Document Type: Article

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