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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Floristic quality assessment"”.
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Evaluating taxonomic surrogates for floristic quality assessment of wetlands
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Floristic quality assessment of grassy slough preserve in Johnson County, Illinois
In the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley (LMRAV), which stretches from southern Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 7 million hectares of bottomland hardwood forest have been converted to agricultural production. Approximately 750,000 hectares of the eastern United States have been …
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An examination of temporal trends, regional variation, and habitat-type differences in site-level Floristic Quality, and their implications for the use of Floristic Quality Assessment
Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) is a measure of site conservation value. It is premised on using an area’s plant species composition and diversity to estimate its human disturbance and degradation levels. FQA metrics are increasingly popular and influential for making land conservation, …
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Validating A Kentucky Wetland Rapid Assessment Method For Forested Riverine Wetlands Using Vegetation, Bird Surveys, And Landscape Analysis
… (EKU) developed the Kentucky Wetland Rapid Assessment Method (KY-WRAM) to evaluate the condition of Kentucky's remaining wetlands. The goal of this study was to validate the KY-WRAM for forested riverine wetlands using a vegetation index of biotic integrity (VIBI), bird surveys, and …
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Democratizing plant biodiversity data with coefficients of conservatism for the vascular flora of Tennessee and Kentucky
Floristic Quality Assessments (FQAs) measure an ecosystem's quality and can be applied to any ecosystem. FQAs consist of two parts: a species checklist and each species’ coefficient of conservatism (c-value). C-values are integers that describe a species’ tolerance to anthropogenically disturbed …