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Singapore Botanical Gardens
Goal
To monitor the success of wetland restoration at the Singapore Botanic Gardens
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Objectives
- to establish a wetland restoration monitoring program at Keppel and Eco Lake wetlands, monitoring hydrology, soils, vegetation, and wildlife
- to establish baseline ecological conditions at Eco Lake to understand the future effects of management actions, such as increasing water levels by 1 meter
- to engage and train Geography/BES and other students interested in restoration to learn fieldwork
- to understand how allowing public access affects wetland ecology and functioning list
- to apply the knowledge acquired in field sampling and monitoring, scaling it up to a regional and global scale
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To achieve these objectives, we sample the vegetation (DBH, tree height, canopy cover, herbaceous cover and species diversity), soil parameters (moisture, colour, texture and pH), hydrology (soil moisture and inundation locations/elevation), and in situ water quality parameters (temperature, dissolved oxygen, and others depending on availability of equipment).
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