The challenge to restore processes in face of nonlinear dynamics - On the crucial role of disturbance regimes

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 334-339

  Jentsch, Anke ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly rule; Equilibrium; Patch dynamics; Regime shift; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; PATCH DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249702374     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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