Improving the success of wetland creation and restoration with know-how, time, and self-design

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-83

  Mitsch, William J ^a   Wilson, Renée F ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achieving successful wetland mitigation; Creating wetlands; Ecological engineering; Ecological modelling; Freshwater marshes; Functional analysis of wetlands; Mitigation of wetland loss; Olentangy river wetland research park, ohio; Wetland succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002738231     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269554     Document Type: Article

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