Biodiversity and New Forests: Interacting Processes, Prospects and Pitfalls of Rainforest Restoration

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 510-525

  Catterall, Carla P ^a,c   Kanowski, John ^a,c   Wardell Johnson, Grant W ^a,b,c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Cooperative Research for Tropical Ecology and Mangement ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity a driver of the reforestation process?; Biodiversity and new forests; Bird species' responses to reforestation in the Wet Tropics; Developmental factors at site scale; Managing new forests of the future; Pathways to rainforest biodiversity; Rainforest dependent endemics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; REFORESTATION;

DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS AT SITE SCALE; INTERACTING PROCESS; NEW FORESTS; RAINFOREST RESTORATIONS; RAINFOREST-DEPENDENT ENDEMICS; WET TROPICS;

CONSERVATION;

EID: 43449115917     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch41     Document Type: Chapter

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