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Elevational Zonation

Elevational Zonation is a spatial ecological pattern in which distinct plant and animal communities are distributed across a salt marsh landscape in response to gradients in elevation, primarily driven by variations in tidal inundation frequency and duration.

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Salt Marsh Plant Zonation: The Relative Importance of Competition and Physical Factors

Steven C. Pennings, Ragan M. Callaway · Ecology · 1992 · 596 citations

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Factors Influencing Vascular Plant Zonation in North Carolina Salt Marshes

David A. Adams · Ecology · 1963 · 366 citations

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Vegetation Succession and Herbivory in a Salt Marsh: Changes Induced by Sea Level Rise and Silt Deposition Along an Elevational Gradient

Han Olff, Jan de Leeuw, J.P. Bakker et al. · Journal of Ecology · 1997 · 305 citations · Full text

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Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates

Carlos Daniel Cadena, Kenneth H. Kozak, Juan Pablo Gómez et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2011 · 253 citations · Full text

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Contrasting patterns of elevational zonation for birds and mammals in the Andes of southeastern Peru

Bruce D. Patterson, Douglas F. Stotz, Sergio Solari et al. · Journal of Biogeography · 1998 · 249 citations · Full text

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Authors

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    Qiang He

    Fudan University, China

    3 publications · 145 citations

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  2. FE
    Frederick E. Nelson

    University of Delaware, United States

    2 publications · 44 citations

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  3. CD
    Carlos Daniel Cadena

    Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

    2 publications · 309 citations

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  4. MD
    Mark D. Bertness

    Brown University, United States

    2 publications · 74 citations

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  5. TB
    Thomas B. Smith

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 59 citations

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Institutions

142

  1. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    498 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    869 citations

  3. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    491 citations

  4. Field Museum of Natural History

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    969 citations

  5. Brown University

    Providence, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    165 citations

  6. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

    Berkeley, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    813 citations

  7. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    188 citations

  8. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    906 citations

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  1. Journal of Biogeography

    8 publications · 859 citations

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  2. Ecology

    5 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. Journal of Ecology

    4 publications · 680 citations

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  4. Plant Ecology

    4 publications · 202 citations

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  5. The Auk

    3 publications · 191 citations

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