Reference Wetlands for Assessing Wetland Mitigation Projects: When Is One Not Enough?

Reference wetlands are important tools in evaluating the ecological success of wetland mitigation projects. The authors compare one reference wetland against a population of reference wetlands to gauge the success of tidal salt marshes created for mitigation. The paper was published originally as a Research Brief of the Society of Wetland Scientists and is available at www.sws.org/researchbrief.