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Retreating marsh shoreline creates hotspots of high-marsh plant diversity

Marsh edge retreat by wave erosion, an ubiquitous process along estuaries, could affect vegetation dynamics in ways that differ from well-established elevation-driven interactions. Along the marshes of Delaware Bay (USA) we show that species composition from marsh edge to interior is driven by gradi...

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Autores principales: Elsey-Quirk, Tracy, Mariotti, Giulio, Valentine, Kendall, Raper, Kirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6453922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30962472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42119-8