Mangrove Wetlands

Estuarine Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 165-202

  Twilley, Robert R ^a   Day, John W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global distribution of mangroves based on Duke et al.; Hydroperiod and waterlogged soils; Mangrove taxa in six global biogeographic regions; Mangrove wetlands, group of halophytes with species; Plant zonation based on mangrove physiognomy, ecological factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887231066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118412787.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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