Can functional leaf traits be used for monitoring wetland restoration? A comparison between commonly used monitoring metrics and functional leaf traits

Monitoring is essential to restoration, but the standard metrics used to monitor wetland restoration do not explicitly account for function in plant communities. Functional traits may be a useful addition to the wetland monitoring toolkit, because they can represent aspects of ecosystem functioning...

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Main Authors: Brian Charles, Marissa H. Chase, Geoffrey Pociask, Rabin Bhattarai, Jeffrey W. Matthews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-07-01
Series:Ecological Indicators
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X22005039