Development and use of a floristic quality index for coastal Louisiana marshes

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2389-2403

  Cretini, Kari F ^a   Visser, Jenneke M ^b   Krauss, Ken W ^a   Steyer, Gregory D ^a  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal restoration; Coefficient of conservatism; Floristic quality index; Louisiana; Wetland condition

Indexed keywords

COASTAL RESTORATIONS; COEFFICIENT OF CONSERVATISM; LOUISIANA; QUALITY INDICES; WETLAND CONDITION;

QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESTORATION; WETLANDS;

FORESTRY;

BIOMONITORING; COASTAL ZONE; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; MARSH; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ARTICLE; COEFFICIENT OF CONSERVATISM SCORE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FLORISTRIC QUALITY INDEX; HURRICANE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MARSH; NATIVE SPECIES; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASHORE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LOUISIANA; PLANTS; WETLANDS;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862886321     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2125-4     Document Type: Article

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