Effects of wind waves versus ship waves on tidal marsh plants: A flume study on different life stages of scirpus maritimus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Silinski, Alexandra ^a   Heuner, Maike ^b   Schoelynck, Jonas ^a   Puijalon, Sara ^c   Schröder, Uwe ^b   Fuchs, Elmar ^b   Troch, Peter ^d   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^e   Meire, Patrick ^a   Temmerman, Stijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLBOSCHOENUS MARITIMUS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; SEEDLING; SHIP; SHIP WAVE; SHOOT; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; VEGETATION; WIND WAVE; CYPERACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; TSUNAMI; WETLAND; WIND;

SCHOENOPLECTUS MARITIMUS;

CYPERACEAE; PLANT SHOOTS; SEEDS; SHIPS; TIDAL WAVES; WETLANDS; WIND;

EID: 84925812910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118687     Document Type: Article

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