The challenge of managing disturbance regimes, terrestrial communities and rare species in a suburbanizing region: The northeastern US coastal sandplain

Biological Conservation

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-3

  Neill, Christopher ^a  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal plain; Disturbance; Management; Restoration; Sandplain; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846477315     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.10.042     Document Type: Editorial

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