Performance criteria, compliance success, and vegetation development in compensatory mitigation wetlands

Environmental Management

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 130-141

  Matthews, Jeffrey W ^a   Endress, Anton G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clean Water Act, Section 404; Creation; Floristic Quality Index; Performance standards; Plant community development; Restoration

Indexed keywords

FLORISTIC QUALITY INDEX; PERFORMANCE STANDARDS; PLANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; STANDARDS; WETLANDS;

VEGETATION;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; MITIGATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; VEGETATION; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXOTIC SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION; WEED;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; ILLINOIS; PLANTS; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION; WETLANDS;

EID: 37549000557     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-007-9002-5     Document Type: Article

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