On the use of shallow basins to restore cutover peatlands: Plant establishment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 471-482

  Campeau, Suzanne ^a   Rochefort, Line ^a   Price, Jonathan S ^b  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bog; Ecological restoration; Multilinear regressions; Plant reintroduction; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

HABITAT RESTORATION; PEATLAND; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

SPHAGNUM;

EID: 11144337120     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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