Rates of vegetation dynamics along elevation gradients in a backbarrier salt marsh of the Danish Wadden Sea

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 610-620

  Kim, Daehyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Keystone species; Ordination; Spatial variability; Tidal creek

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921872535     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9697-x     Document Type: Article

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