3.2.1 Within-site comparisons
Without considering stream restoration intervention, the long-term
carbon sequestration potential at a particular degraded site could be
conceptually considered as the difference in carbon stocks between
reference and degraded categories. Accordingly, the short-term carbon
storage since restoration, if any, could be represented conceptually by
the difference between degraded and treatment categories. We examined
relationships of carbon stock via within-site comparisons, where we
compared carbon stocks between degraded, treatment, and reference
categories within one site using ANOVA tests and pairwise comparisons
between treatments using the emmeans package in R version 4.2.2 (Lenth
2023, R Core Team 2022).