Using landscape context to guide ecological restoration: An approach for pits and quarries in Ontario

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-127

  Corry, Robert C ^a   Lafortezza, Raffaele ^b   Brown, Robert D ^a   Kenny, Natasha ^a   Robertson, P Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggregate (gravel) extraction; Cost surface analysis; Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis); Landscape pattern metrics; Microclimate

Indexed keywords

LYCAEIDES MELISSA SAMUELIS; MELISSA OFFICINALIS;

EID: 44649151167     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.26.2.120     Document Type: Review

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