Relationships Between Soil Composition and Spartina Alterniflora Dieback in an Atlantic Salt Marsh

Wetlands

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-20

  Crawford, John T ^a   Stone, Amanda G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WF Baird and Associates Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Dieback; Field capacity; Sapelo Island; Soil texture; Soils; Spartina alterniflora; Tidal marsh; Water retention; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922004343     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0588-0     Document Type: Article

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