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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) metrics are used to assess the conservation value of natural areas based on the composition of their plant communities. FQA is based on coefficients of conservatism (C-values).
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Floristic Quality Assessment: a critique, a defense, and a primer
Ecosphere, 2019 Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) measures have become extraordinarily influential ecological metrics in North America over the past 20 yr. Government agencies, conservation organizations, land managers, and researchers alike utilize this plant‐based ...
Greg Spyreas
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Effectiveness of different metrics of floristic quality assessment: The simpler, the better?
Ecological Indicators, 2023 Vascular plants are good environmental indicators. Thus, floristic inventories have a high potential in environmental management since they reflect the current and past status of the environment.
Tiberio Fiaschi +11 more
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Diversity, 2023 This study aimed to show the influence of cultural landscape structure on species richnessand the conservation value of vascular flora.The analyses are based on 3201 original floristic lists (relevés) and 83,875 floristic data collected since 1994 within
Julian Chmiel
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The Great Lakes Botanist, 2023 Plaster Creek, a tributary of the Grand River, drains a 58-square mile watershed in Kent County, Michigan. Its headwaters originate in the agriculturally dominated southwestern portion of the county, and then it meanders through residential, commercial ...
David P. Warners +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2023 Globally, temperate deciduous forests are threatened by invasion of non‐native (exotic) plant species. In the eastern United States, Rosa multiflora is a dominant shrub invader in forests, which often forms dense thickets that reduce sunlight ...
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The Great Lakes Botanist, 2022 The 2019–2023 Masterplan for Kent County Parks includes the future development of acquired properties that have been designated as the Lowell Regional Greenspace (528 acres), occupying nearly the entirety of Section 22 of Lowell Charter Township in Kent ...
Carolyn R. Koehn +5 more
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Agriculture, 2021 Montado is a characteristic ecosystem of the Mediterranean region. The adequate management of this silvo-pastoral ecosystem requires good understanding of the effect of factors such as tree canopy, fertilization and soil amendment on pasture growth.
João Serrano +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 The increase in the degradation of wetlands globally has highlighted the need to assess their ecological condition. Hillslope seep wetlands are among the least studied wetland types, yet they the most vulnerable because of their small size and steep ...
Notiswa Libala +2 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2022 Continental halophytic grasslands are known for performing of range of ecosystem services especially remarkable in the regions where they are much distributed – in arid and semi-arid areas. Continental halophytic grasslands of the Central and South-East
Milica LUKOVIĆ +6 more
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