Synthesis: Is Alcoa successfully restoring a jarrah forest ecosystem after bauxite mining in Western Australia?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2007, Pages

  Koch, John M ^a   Hobbs, Richard J ^b  

^a ALCOA INC   (United States)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcoa; Ecosystem; Restoration; Success; Summary; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MINING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 37349039428     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00301.x     Document Type: Review

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