Surviving in Changing Seascapes: Sediment Dynamics as Bottleneck for Long-Term Seagrass Presence

Ecosystems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 296-310

  Suykerbuyk, Wouter ^a,b   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^b   Govers, Laura L ^a   Giesen, Kris ^a,b   de Jong, Dick J ^c   Herman, Peter ^a,b   Hendriks, Jan ^a   van Katwijk, Marieke M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c RIJKSWATERSTAAT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arenicola marina; changing seascapes; feedback loops; persistence; seagrass; sediment dynamics; sediment stability; Zostera noltii

Indexed keywords

ANNELID; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HYDRODYNAMICS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PERSISTENCE; SEAGRASS MEADOW; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION COVER;

ARENICOLA MARINA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 84947791021     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9932-3     Document Type: Article

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