Plant and soil responses to salvaged marsh surface and organic matter amendments at a created wetland in central Pennsylvania

Wetlands

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 90-105

  Stauffer, Aura L ^a,b   Brooks, Robert P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gannett Fleming Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Created wetland; Salvaged marsh surface (SMS); Soil amendments; Wetland mitigation

Indexed keywords

CAREX; CAREX LURIDA; LURIDAE;

COMPOSTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; PLANT ESTABLISHMENT; PLANT RESPONSE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL RESPONSE; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS;

USA, PENNSYLVANIA, TIPTON;

EID: 0031284521     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03160721     Document Type: Article

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