Abstract Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) measures have become extraordinarily
influential ecological metrics in North America over the past 20 yr. Government agencies …

Boreal wetlands are at risk of degradation from anthropogenic activities including oil sands
energy extraction. Despite efforts to monitor the impacts of oil sands energy extraction …

Evaluating the conservation value of ecological communities is critical for forest
management but can be challenging because it is difficult to survey all taxonomic groups of …

Many indices to assess ecosystem health involve conservatism scores (C-scores), which are
assigned to individual plant species by expert regional botanists and are intended to provide …

Biological indicators are commonly used to evaluate ecosystem condition. However, their
use is often constrained by the availability of information with which to assign species …

Over the past two decades, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has
developed and refined the Wisconsin Floristic Quality Assessment (WFQA or FQA) …

Field observations and measurements of wetland plants have traditionally been used to
monitor and evaluate wetland condition; however, there has been increasing use of remote …

Abstract Floristic Quality Assessment requires compiling a full list of vascular plant species
for the wetland. Practitioners may lack the time and taxonomic skills for full-community …

Resumen DIETA, Victorio J. y BIGANZOLI, Fernando. Evaluación preliminar del estado de
conservación de plantas: comparación de dos métodos aplicados al género Gavilea …

Abstract Floristic Quality Assessment requires compiling a full list of vascular plant species
for the wetland. Practitioners may lack the time and taxonomic skills for full-community …