Invasion of Spartina alterniflora enhanced ecosystem carbon and nitrogen stocks in the Yangtze Estuary, China

Agriculture & Biology

• Spartina alterniflora 100%
• carbon sinks 89%
• Spartina 76%
• estuaries 76%
• Bolboschoenoplectus mariqueter 75%
• Phragmites 58%
• ecosystems 56%
• China 47%
• nitrogen 43%
• net primary productivity 26%
• degradation 16%
• leaf area index 14%
• indigenous species 11%
• growing season 10%
• Phragmites australis 8%
• biomass 8%
• invasive species 6%
• wetlands 6%
• carbon 4%
• soil 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• carbon stock 80%
• estuary 57%
• nitrogen 44%
• ecosystem 43%
• litter 31%
• net primary production 24%
• decomposition 19%
• mudflat 15%
• native species 14%
• leaf area index 14%
• growing season 12%
• biomass 8%
• invasive species 7%
• rate 6%
• field experiment 6%
• wetland 5%
• carbon 3%
• soil 2%
• comparison 2%

Chemical Compounds

• Ecosystem 88%
• Nitrogen 44%
• Carbon Atom 34%
• Leaf Like Crystal 11%
• Soil 5%
• Decomposition 4%
• Length 4%