Determining ecological equivalence in service-to-service scaling of salt marsh restoration

Environmental Management

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 290-300

  Strange, Elizabeth ^a   Galbraith, Hector ^a   Bickel, Sarah ^a   Mills, Dave ^a   Beltman, Douglas ^a   Lipton, Joshua ^a  

^a ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological equivalence; Ecosystem services; Habitat equivalency analysis; Natural resource damage assessment; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NATURAL RESOURCES; RESTORATION; VEGETATION;

SALT MARSHES;

ECOLOGY;

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; HABITAT RESTORATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SALT MARSH; VEGETATION; ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLANT; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANIMALIA;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0036482278     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-001-0019-X     Document Type: Article

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