For nearly 50 years, a farmer has raised corn and soybeans on his family's 1,000-acre farm by a river. Now in retirement, the farmer wants to return the farmland to its natural state as a wetland in the floodplain of the river

The farmer will most need the services of A) a crop scientist.
B) a restoration ecologist and data from LTER projects.
C) an agricultural engineer with training in successional dynamics.
D) a functional morphologist.


B

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