The use of hydrologic and ecological indicators for the restoration of drainage ditches and water diversions in a mountain fen, Cascade Range, California

Wetlands

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-304

  Patterson, Lindsay ^a,b   Cooper, David J ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Conservation Research Center of the Teton Science Schools ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Drakesbad Meadow; Fen hydrology; Fen restoration; Lassen Volcanic National Park; Mountain fen; Organic carbon; Organic matter; Peatland; Peatland hydrology; Peatland restoration; Seedbank; Wet meadow; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FEN; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PEATLAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CAREX SIMULATA; CAREX UTRICULATA; DESCHAMPSIA CESPITOSA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM BRACHYANTHERUM; POA; POA PRATENSIS; SCIRPUS MICROCARPUS;

EID: 55849084361     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2007)27[290:TUOHAE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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