Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

Urban wetlands can provide many important ecosystem services to society. However, they are often severely degraded by runoff, pollution, and invasion by aggressive non-native plant species. This Creative Inquiry project is establishing a long-term monitoring program to document vegetation composition in a restored wetland in the Hunnicutt Creek watershed for the purposes of inventory, assessment of environmental conditions, and adaptive management. Using a standard ecological observation unit, a 10 x 10 meter sampling plot originally developed by The Carolina Vegetation Survey (CVS), we are evaluating the performance of re-introduced and naturally regenerated native woody species, and documenting the recruitment of non-natives from adjacent unrestored areas. A total of eight CVS plots have been established and will be resampled twice annually for the next several years.

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