Spatial Impacts of Stream and Wetland Restoration on Riparian Soil Properties in the North Carolina Piedmont

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 738-746

  Unghire, Joshua M ^a,b   Sutton Grier, Ariana E ^c   Flanagan, Neal E ^a   Richardson, Curtis J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Smithsonian Environmental Research Center ^*  (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Geostatistics; Kriging; Soil organic matter; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FLOODPLAIN; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; PHOSPHORUS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIAL VARIATION; WETLAND;

NORTH CAROLINA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81355160874     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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