Quantification of restoration success using complex systems concepts and models

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-123

  Anand, Madhur ^a   Desrochers, Rachelle E ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attractor; Community; Modeling; Population; Recovery; Trajectory; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 2142648728     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00281.x     Document Type: Article

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