Comparison of function of created wetlands of two age classes in central Pennsylvania

Environmental Management

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 597-608

  Hoeltje, S M ^a   Cole, C A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem creation; Functional assessment models; United States; Wetland mitigation

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA; CREATED WETLANDS; FLOOD PLAINS; FOREST PATCHES; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT MODELS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATIONS; HABITAT STRUCTURES; HYDROGEOMORPHIC; HYDROLOGIC CONNECTIVITIES; INDIVIDUAL MODELS; LAND USE DIVERSITIES; NATIVE PLANTS; NATURAL WETLANDS; REFERENCE SITES; REFERENCE WETLANDS; ROAD DENSITIES; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENTS; UNITED STATES; URBAN LAND USE; WETLAND MITIGATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE; OCEAN HABITATS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER;

WETLANDS;

AGE CLASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLOODPLAIN; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH SIZE;

ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES; WETLANDS;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 62549158209     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9180-9     Document Type: Article

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