An index of plant community integrity: Development of the methodology for assessing prairie wetland plant communities

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-133

  DeKeyser, Edward S ^a   Kirby, Donald R ^a   Ell, Michael J ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Dakota Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Metric; Metric development; North Dakota; Wetland vegetation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WETLANDS;

PLANT COMMUNITIES;

ECOLOGY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; WETLAND;

NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141958566     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-160X(03)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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