Comparing surface effective saturation and depth-to-water-level as predictors of plant composition in a restored riparian wetland

Ecohydrology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 637-647

  Booth, Eric G ^a,b   Loheide, Steven P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem restoration; Effective saturation; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Nonparametric multiplicative regression; Soil moisture; Water table; Wetland vegetation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EFFECTIVE SATURATION; NON-METRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NON-PARAMETRIC; WATER TABLES; WETLAND VEGETATION;

GROUNDWATER; SOIL MOISTURE; WETLANDS;

RESTORATION;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; PLANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN ZONE; SATURATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84860360636     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.250     Document Type: Article

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