Decadal changes in vegetation of a subarctic salt marsh used by lesser snow and Canada geese

• Published in: Plant Ecology
• Main Authors: Kotanen, Peter M., Abraham, Kenneth F.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2013
• Subjects: alternative states; Festuca rubra; foraging; Hudson-James Bay; Puccinellia phryganodes; Akimiski Island; Arctic; Canada; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Nunavut; Akimiski island; James Bay; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/73993; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-013-0178-x

This is the accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer Verlag. In the Hudson-James Bay system, grubbing and grazing by lesser snow geese have resulted in severe devegetation of coastal marshes. These changes likely represent an example of an alternative stable state; however, long-term...