Coastal marsh vegetation assemblages of Galveston Bay: Insights for the East Texas Chenier plain

Wetlands

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 861-870

  Johnson, Jeremy S ^a   Cairns, David M ^a   Houser, Chris ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal marshes; Gulf of Mexico; Hierarchical classification; Indicator species analysis; Texas Chenier Plain

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; MARSH; VEGETATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHENIER PLAIN; GALVESTON BAY; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883786124     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0443-8     Document Type: Article

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