Biotic succession in a coastal salt marsh
Year: 1940
Type: article
Abstract: It is often possible to work out the probable successional relations ot an area by a careful study ot the zonal communities within that area, and the salt marsh lends itself especially well to such a study because the gradual transition trom one zone to another is apparent to even the caaual observer. Grand Isle is a small island ott the coast ot Louisiana whose 8ize ia about 1 by 7 miles. Down the middle ot the island there is a rather definite tree line which roughly divides the sand dune or Gult Bide on the south from the marsh or back bay side on the north. The marshes of Grand Isle make up a large portion ot the island and form a character-istic border along the back bay. This so-called "wet prairie " is alao typi-cal of a great body of marshland common in the Gulf Coastal region. This study was conducted through the months of June and July, 1989, with intensive work on the marsh just back of the Louisiana State Uni-versity Field Laboratory and observations on the marshes of numerous
Author: R. Walker
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W327615041