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Wetlands Restoration of Prior Converted Cropland
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directly to Wetlands Restoration Web Site.
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Overview: Methodology to restore, evaluate, and predict restoration success
on prior converted wetlands is being evaluated in field scale studies.
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Goal: Quantify relationships between hydrology, microtopography, soil and
water chemistry, and water quality in restored wetlands and evaluate the
potential for managing hydrology, microtopography, and soil and water chemistry
to influence the structure, composition and development of plant communities.
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Wetland losses resulting from conversion to agriculture and other uses
has generated public and political interest in wetland creation and restoration.
Currently, there exist few site-specific, prescriptive, quantitative criteria
for restoring wetland hydrology and water quality functions. Field and
simulation results will be combined to develop objective design and management
criteria for restoring wetland hydrology and water quality functions on
prior converted lands. Study sites are located in Beaufort and Craven counties.
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Cooperators: M.J. Vepraskas (Soil Science), T.H. Shear (Forestry), G.M.
Chescheir (Bio. & Ag. Eng.).
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Graduate Students: Kevin
Tweedy, BAE (completed MS 98); Dwight McKinney, Forestry (completed
MS 1997); Brian Smith, Soil Science (completed MS 1998); Elizabeth Scherrer,
Forestry (completed MS 2000)
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