which plant communities can be used as optimum and standard community? what about salt marsh plant communities? can they used as optimum and standard? any suggestions?
Community ecologists model "reference conditions" in attempts to define what ideal communities should look like in a given biome. They tend to be regionally specific.
As a starting point, here is a well cited example for eel grass salt marsh, and mud flats:Article Developing success criteria for restored eelgrass, salt mars...