Changes in the composition and standing crop of salt-marsh communities in response to the removal of a grazer
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Publication Year
1969
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The effects of excluding grazing by lesser snow geese (Anser caerulescens caerulescens) on the salt marsh at La Perouse Bay, Manitoba on species composition, live standing crop and plant litter have been measured in a salt marsh. Each year from 1979 to 1984 a 5 x 5 m exclosure was established and maintained throughout the duration of the study. Vegetative measurements were taken in early August of 1982, 1983, and 1984 within each exclosure and on adjacent grazed sites.
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en
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Keywords
grazing
Anser caerulescens caerulescens
Carex subspathacea
exclosures
lesser snow geese
Plantago maritima
Potentilla egedii
Puccinellia phryganodes
salt marsh
species composition
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