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Baldwin, A.H. (2007). Vegetation and Seed Bank Studies of Salt-Pulsed Swamps of the Nanticoke River, Chesapeake Bay. In: Ecology of Tidal Freshwater Forested Wetlands of the Southeastern United States. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5095-4_6
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