Soil properties predict plant community development of mitigation wetlands created in the Virginia Piedmont, USA

Environmental Management

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1022-1036

  Dee, Suzanne M ^a   Ahn, Changwoo ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Created wetlands; Peak biomass; Plant community development; Post construction monitoring; Soil properties; Wetland mitigation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

CREATED WETLANDS; PEAK-BIOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SOIL PROPERTY; WETLAND MITIGATION;

WETLANDS;

SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLORISTICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ARTHRAXON HISPIDUS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BULK DENSITY; GRAVIMETRIC SOIL MOISTURE; JUNCUS EFFUSUS; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCIRPUS; SCIRPUS CYPERINUS; SEED PLANT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; VEGETATIVE STAGE; WETLAND; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; METHODOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL; STANDARD;

PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

ARTHRAXON HISPIDUS; JUNCUS EFFUSUS; SCIRPUS CYPERINUS;

BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PLANTS; SOIL; VIRGINIA; WETLANDS;

EID: 84865320823     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9838-1     Document Type: Article

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