Assessing simple versus complex restoration strategies for industrially disturbed forests

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 639-650

  Rayfield, Bronwyn ^a,b   Anand, Madhur ^a   Laurence, Sophie ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complexity; Disturbance; Monitoring; Multivariate; Ordination; Pollution; Reference system; Restoration

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEXITY; DISTURBANCE; MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; POLLUTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 33747149010     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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