Nutrient limitation of plant growth and forage quality in Arctic coastal marshes

• Published in: Journal of Ecology
• Main Authors: NGAI, JACQUELINE T., JEFFERIES, ROBERT L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Arctic; Hudson; Hudson Bay; La Pérouse Bay; Carex aquatilis; Puccinellia phryganodes
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00926.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.0022-0477.2004.00926.x; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00926.x

Summary Foraging by geese has led to vegetation loss in salt marshes along the Hudson Bay coast and lesser snow geese are increasingly grazing inland freshwater marshes. We determined whether different nutrients limit the growth of forage plants in the two habitats, and whether these differences aff...