State-and-transition successional model for bauxite mining rehabilitation in the Jarrah forest of Western Australia

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-37

  Grant, Carl D ^a  

^a Environmental Department   (Australia)

Author keywords

Completion criteria; Management manipulations; Rehabilitation; State and transition model; Succession; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MINING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 33646683998     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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