Mitigation-related changes in vernal pool edaphic settings

Wacker, M. and N. M. Kelly. 2004. Changes in vernal pool edaphic settings through mitigation at the project and landscape scale. Wetlands Ecology and Management 12(3): 165-178 

We analyzed past mitigation practices in two rapidly growing counties in California’s Great Central Valley to determine if mitigation procedures are re-arranging the vernal pool landscape by substituting more common or less ecologically significant pool types (as defined by soil type and geomorphology) for rarer or ecologically richer pool types. Pdf download. Journal Link.

Key words: California . HGM . Mitigation . Regulation . Vernal pools . Wetlands