Linking restoration to the wider landscape: A study of a bracken control experiment within a upland moorland landscape mosaic in the Peak District, UK

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 115-134

  Tong, C ^a,b   Le Duc, M G ^a   Ghorbani, J ^a,c   Marrs, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Mazandaran Faculty of Natural Resources   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bracken; Geographical Information System (GIS); High resolution aerial photography; Mapping; Plant communities; Remote sensing; Restoration; Scale

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MAPPING; PLANTS (BOTANY); REMOTE SENSING;

BRACKEN; HIGH-RESOLUTION AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SCALE;

RESTORATION;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FERN; LANDSCAPE; MOORLAND; VEGETATION; WEED CONTROL; WOODLAND;

DERBYSHIRE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; PEAK DISTRICT; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CALLUNA; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 33748563190     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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