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The Influence of Time on the Soil Seed Bank and Vegetation across a Landscape-Scale Wetland Restoration Project by Stroh, Peter A., Hughes, Francine M. R., Sparks, Tim H., Mountford, J. Owen

“…Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve (NNR) in Cambridgeshire, U.K. is a wetland of international importance isolated in a landscape dominated by arable farming…”
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Interactive effects of soil moisture, vegetation canopy, plant litter and seed addition on plant diversity in a wetland community by Xiong, S, Johansson, M.E, Hughes, F.M.R, Hayes, A, Richards, K.S, Nilsson, C

“…1. We carried out a factorial experiment to examine how groundwater availability (low and high sites with intermediate or rare flooding), vegetation canopy,…”
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Allocation of river flows for restoration of floodplain forest ecosystems: A review of approaches and their applicability in Europe by HUGHES, Francine M. R, ROOD, Stewart B

“…Floodplain forests are flood-dependent ecosystems. They rely on well-timed, periodic floods for the provision of regeneration sites and on tapered flood…”
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The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK by Hughes, Francine M. R., Adams, William M., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Field, Rob H., Peh, Kelvin S.-H., Warrington, Stuart

“…There is an increasing emphasis on the restoration of ecosystem services as well as of biodiversity, especially where restoration projects are planned at a…”
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When is Open-endedness Desirable in Restoration Projects? by Hughes, Francine M. R., Adams, William M., Stroh, Peter A.

“…A low‐intervention approach to restoration that also allows restoration outcomes to be framed as trajectories of ecosystem change can be described as…”
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Restoring Riparian Ecosystems: The Challenge of Accommodating Variability and Designing Restoration Trajectories by Hughes, Francine M. R, Colston, Adrian, Mountford, J. Owen

“…Flood disturbance processes play a key role in the functioning of riparian ecosystems and in the maintenance of biodiversity along river corridors. As a…”
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Benefits and costs of ecological restoration: Rapid assessment of changing ecosystem service values at a U.K. wetland by Peh, Kelvin S.‐H., Balmford, Andrew, Field, Rob H., Lamb, Anthony, Birch, Jennifer C., Bradbury, Richard B., Brown, Claire, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Lester, Martin, Morrison, Ross, Sedgwick, Isabel, Soans, Chris, Stattersfield, Alison J., Stroh, Peter A., Swetnam, Ruth D., Thomas, David H. L., Walpole, Matt, Warrington, Stuart, Hughes, Francine M. R.

“…Restoration of degraded land is recognized by the international community as an important way of enhancing both biodiversity and ecosystem services, but more…”
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Managing River Flows to Restore Floodplain Forests by Rood, Stewart B., Samuelson, Glenda M., Braatne, Jeffrey H., Gourley, Chad R., Francine M. R. Hughes, Mahoney, John M.

“…River damming has dramatic environmental impacts and while changes due to reservoir flooding are immediate, downstream impacts are more spatially extensive…”
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Potential impact of invasive alien species on ecosystem services provided by a tropical forested ecosystem: a case study from Montserrat by Peh, Kelvin S.-H., Balmford, Andrew, Birch, Jennifer C., Brown, Claire, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Daley, James, Dawson, Jeffrey, Gray, Gerard, Hughes, Francine M. R., Mendes, Stephen, Millett, James, Stattersfield, Alison J., Thomas, David H. L., Walpole, Matt, Bradbury, Richard B.

“…Local stakeholders at the important but vulnerable Centre Hills on Montserrat consider that the continued presence of feral livestock (particularly goats and…”
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The influence of hydrological regimes on sex ratios and spatial segregation of the sexes in two dioecious riparian shrub species in northern Sweden by Hughes, Francine M. R., Johansson, Mats, Xiong, Shaojun, Carlborg, Elisabet, Hawkins, Dawn, Svedmark, Magnus, Hayes, Adrian, Goodall, Alexander, Richards, Keith S., Nilsson, Christer

“…River management practices have altered the hydrological regimes of many rivers and also altered the availability of regeneration niches for riparian species…”
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The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature by Bradbury, Richard B., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Fisher, Brendan, Hughes, Francine M. R., Ingwall-King, Lisa, MacDonald, Michael A., Merriman, Jennifer C., Peh, Kelvin S.-H., Pellier, Anne-Sophie, Thomas, David H. L., Trevelyan, Rosie, Balmford, Andrew

“…Nature provides many benefits for people, yet there are few data on how changes at individual sites impact the net value of ecosystem service provision. A 2002…”
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Abrupt Drops in Water Table Level Influence the Development of Populus nigra and Salix alba Seedlings of Different Ages by Guilloy, Hélène, González, Eduardo, Muller, Etienne, Hughes, Francine M. R., Barsoum, Nadia

“…Early seedling establishment is a demographic bottleneck for the sexual regeneration of many riparian tree species such as Populus nigra and Salix alba , two…”
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Quantifying Soil Hydrology to Explain the Development of Vegetation at an Ex-Arable Wetland Restoration Site by Stroh, Peter A., Mountford, J. Owen, Araya, Yoseph N., Hughes, Francine M. R.

“…Wetland restoration frequently sets well-defined vegetation targets, but where restoration occurs on highly degraded land such targets are not practical and…”
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Monitoring and evaluating large-scale, ‘open-ended’ habitat creation projects: A journey rather than a destination by Hughes, Francine M.R., Stroh, Peter A., Adams, William M., Kirby, Keith J., Mountford, J. Owen, Warrington, Stuart

“…Ecological restoration frequently involves setting fixed species or habitat targets to be achieved by prescribed restoration activities or through natural…”
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Ecophysiology of riparian cottonwoods: stream flow dependency, water relations and restoration by Rood, Stewart B, Braatne, Jeffrey H, Hughes, Francine M R

“…Cottonwoods (Populus spp.) are adapted to riparian or floodplain zones throughout the Northern Hemisphere; they are also used as parents for fast-growing…”
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Goals and principles for programmatic river restoration monitoring and evaluation: collaborative learning across multiple projects by Weber, Christine, Åberg, Ulrika, Buijse, Anthonie D., Hughes, Francine M.R., McKie, Brendan G., Piégay, Hervé, Roni, Phil, Vollenweider, Stefan, Haertel‐Borer, Susanne

“…River restoration is a relatively recent undertaking, with high levels of complexity and uncertainty involved. Many restoration projects have been monitored…”
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UNCERTAINTIES IN RIVER RESTORATION by HUGHES, FRANCINE M. R

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VARIATION IN POPULUS NIGRA CLONES: IMPLICATIONS FOR RIVER RESTORATION PROJECTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM by Winfield, Mark, Hughes, Francine M. R.

“…Black poplar (P. nigra ssp. betulifolia) is a tree species that is a subject of concern in the United Kingdom because of its rarity, skewed sex ratio, and…”
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The Influence of Flooding Regimes on Forest Distribution and Composition in the Tana River Floodplain, Kenya by HUGHES, F. M. R

“…(1) Different forest types are related to the frequency and duration of flooding on the Tana River floodplain in Kenya, which supports mainly evergreen forest…”
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One hundred priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe by Ockendon, Nancy, Thomas, David H.L., Cortina, Jordi, Adams, William M., Aykroyd, Toby, Barov, Boris, Boitani, Luigi, Bonn, Aletta, Branquinho, Cristina, Brombacher, Michael, Burrell, Charles, Carver, Steve, Crick, Humphrey Q.P., Duguy, Beatriz, Everett, Sue, Fokkens, Bart, Fuller, Robert J., Gibbons, David W., Gokhelashvili, Ramaz, Griffin, Cy, Halley, Duncan J., Hotham, Paul, Hughes, Francine M.R., Karamanlidis, Alexandros A., McOwen, Chris J., Miles, Lera, Mitchell, Roger, Rands, Michael R.W., Roberts, Jeremy, Sandom, Christopher J., Spencer, Jonathan W., ten Broeke, Erica, Tew, Eleanor R., Thomas, Chris D., Timoshyna, Anastasiya, Unsworth, Richard K.F., Warrington, Stuart, Sutherland, William J.

“…We present the results of a process to attempt to identify 100 questions that, if answered, would make a substantial difference to terrestrial and marine…”
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