Protocols for restoration based on recruitment dynamics, community structure, and ecosystem function: Perspectives from South African fynbos

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-230

  Holmes, Patricia M ^a   Richardson, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FYNBOS; HABITAT RESTORATION; RECRUITMENT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033396035     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1999.72015.x     Document Type: Article

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