The attenuation of current- and wave-driven flow within submerged multispecific vegetative canopies

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1855-1874

  Weitzman, Joel S ^a   Zeller, Robert B ^a   Thomas, Florence I M ^b   Koseff, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BENTHOS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FIELD SURVEY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LABORATORY METHOD; MEADOW; MODEL VALIDATION; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; UNDERSTORY; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE ACTION;

FLORIDA BAY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 84923928952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10121     Document Type: Article

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