Isolated, seasonal wetlands within agricultural landscapes are important ecosystems.
However, they are currently experiencing direct and indirect effects of agricultural …

Abstract Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) is a recognized bioassessment technique for
evaluating habitat nativity or resource condition (status) using conservatism of the plant …

Wetlands are vital natural resources thereby providing ecological and socio-economic
benefits to the people. However, anthropogenic activities have seriously changed the …

In the USA, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resource
Conservation Service (NRCS) has restored millions of acres of wetlands through its Wetland …

Typical goals of wetland restoration efforts are to conserve, create, or enhance wetland
structure, and to achieve wetland function that approaches or exceeds natural conditions …

Concerns about loss of biodiversity and structural complexity in managed forests have
recently increased and led to the development of new management strategies focused on …

The study of riparian plant communities along running streams offers information on the
state of habitat and can help increase our knowledge on the use of bioindicators. We …

Few areas in coastal Louisiana have suffered more drastic changes to shoreline position,
geometry, and configuration than the barrier islands (Martinez et al., 2005). Long-term …

Coefficients of Conservatism (C-values) are values given to plant taxa to describe and rank
their fidelity to habitat quality and/or stability within a given region. In this paper, we present …

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 …