Flagging aberrant sites and assemblages in restoration projects

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 68-76

  Wassenaar, Theo D ^a,b   Ferreira, Sam M ^a,c   Van Aarde, Rudi J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b African Wilderness Restoration   (Namibia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aberrant changes; Dune forest; Early detection; Mining

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; DUNE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RESOURCE SCARCITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 33947634020     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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