title: Salt-marsh plant geratology.
abstract: Measurement of individual culms of several salt-marsh plants demonstrates seasonal community change in terms of height increments and live and dead leaves. Tissue production and its ultimate transition from live to dead components and culm mortality all suggest a continuum of geratologic processes contributing to the estuarine ecosystem.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hardisky
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Reimold