Salt marsh-mangrove ecotones: using structural gradients to investigate the effects of woody plant encroachment on plant–soil interactions and ecosystem carbon pools

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1020-1031

  Yando, Erik S ^a   Osland, Michael J ^b   Willis, Jonathan M ^a   Day, Richard H ^b   Krauss, Ken W ^b   Hester, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon storage; climate change; ecotone; forest development; mangrove forest; plant soil (below ground) interactions; range expansion; salt marsh; soil development; woody plant encroachment

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ECOTONE; FOREST DYNAMICS; GRASSLAND; MANGROVE; PEAT; RANGE EXPANSION; SALTMARSH; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WOODY PLANT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84962537858     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12571     Document Type: Article

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