Soil properties and vegetative development in four restored freshwater depressional wetlands

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1482-1495

  Ballantine, Katherine ^a   Schneider, Rebecca ^a   Groffman, Peter ^b   Lehmann, Johannes ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHAR; BULK DENSITY; DEPRESSIONAL WETLAND; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FIELD SCALE; FRESHWATER WETLANDS; NATURAL WETLAND; NEW YORK; ORGANIC AMENDMENTS; PLANT BIOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT DIVERSITY; RESTORATION DESIGN; SITE CONDITIONS; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; SOIL PROPERTY; TREATMENT EFFECTS; VEGETATIVE DEVELOPMENT; WETLAND PLOTS;

RESTORATION; SITE SELECTION; SOILS; WATER;

WETLANDS;

BULK DENSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SITE SELECTION; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL CARBON; WEED; WETLAND;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865360938     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0362     Document Type: Article

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