Groundwater controls ecological zonation of salt marsh macrophytes

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 840-849

  Wilson, Alicia M ^a   Evans, Tyler ^a   Moore, Willard ^a   Schutte, Charles A ^b   Joye, Samantha B ^b   Hughes, Andrea H ^a   Anderson, Joseph L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Salicornia virginica; Salinity; Salt marsh; Spartina alterniflora; Zonation

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FLORA; FLOW PATTERN; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MACROPHYTE; POREWATER; SALTMARSH; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WATER TABLE; ZONATION;

UNITED STATES;

JUNCUS; SALICORNIA VIRGINICA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

GROUND WATER; SOIL;

ANGIOSPERM; CHEMISTRY; GEORGIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALOPHYTE; SALINITY; SOIL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

ANGIOSPERMS; GEORGIA; GROUNDWATER; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANT PLANTS; SOIL; SOUTH CAROLINA; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84929657090     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2183.1     Document Type: Article

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