Thinking locally for urban forest restoration: A simple method links exotic species invasion to local landscape structure

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 217-220

  Vidra, Rebecca L ^a   Shear, Theodore H ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exotic species; Greenways; Landscape context; Landscape structure; Riparian buffers; Urban forest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH SIZE; PATCHINESS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN ZONE; URBAN FORESTRY;

CARY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; RALEIGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44349154116     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00387.x     Document Type: Article

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