Plant and Soil Responses to Created Microtopography and Soil Treatments in Bottomland Hardwood Forest Restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 136-146

  Simmons, Matthew E ^a   Ben Wu, X ^a   Whisenant, Steven G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borrow pit; Erosion control mat; Hydrology; Soil properties; Spatial heterogeneity; Wetland

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS FOREST; EROSION CONTROL; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL PROPERTY; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651261188     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00524.x     Document Type: Article

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