Vegetation mosaics, patch dynamics and alternate stable states in an arctic intertidal marsh.

• Main Author: McLaren, Jennie R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada 2002
• Subjects: La Pérouse Bay; Churchill,Manitoba; Puccinellia phryganodes; salt marsh; Wapusk National Park; Ecology; Arctic; Churchill; Wapusk national park
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/13790

Soil degradation occurs following loss of vegetative cover at both the landscape and individual patch scale at La Pérouse Bay, Manitoba. At the landscape scale, soils from vegetated patches had a higher infiltration rate, and higher moisture, organic content and nitrogen content, but lower salinity...