Revegetation trials in degraded coastal marshes of the Hudson Bay Lowlands.

• Main Author: Handa, Tanya I.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada 1998
• Subjects: lesser snow geese; Anser caerulescens caerulescens L; Puccinellia phryganodes; Carex subspothacea; La Pérouse Bay; Churchill; Manitoba; Carex aquatilis; Ecology; Wapusk National Park; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Wapusk national park
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/13792

Intense foraging by an increasing population of lesser snow geese, Anser caerulescens L., has led to the conversion of former salt-marsh swards, dominated by Puccinellia phryganodes and Carex subspothacea to hypersaline mudflats, and the conversion of former fresh-water sedge meadows, dominated by C...