Relative influence of landscape vs. local factors on plant community assembly in restored wetlands

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2108-2123

  Matthews, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Peralta, Ariane L ^b   Flanagan, Diana N ^b   Baldwin, Patrick M ^b   Soni, Arun ^b   Kent, Angela D ^b   Endress, Anton G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained ordination; Convergence; Floodplain forest; Floristic quality; Illinois; Land cover; Marsh; Plant species composition; Restoration ecology; USA; Variation partitioning; Wetland mitigation; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FLORISTICS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ILLINOIS; PLANTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71549150604     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1836.1     Document Type: Article

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