Monitoring the Outcomes of Reforestation for Biodiversity Conservation

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 526-536

  Kanowski, John ^a,b   Catterall, Carla P ^a,b   Harrison, Debra A ^a,b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Establishment of regional Natural Resource Management organizations; Lack of monitoring of reforestation projects and consequences; Monitoring and evaluation of revegetation works; Outcomes of reforestation for biodiversity conservation; Specifying performance criteria for restoration projects

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; REFORESTATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; LACK OF MONITORING OF REFORESTATION PROJECTS AND CONSEQUENCES; MONITORING AND EVALUATIONS; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION PROJECT;

NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

EID: 66249100707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch42     Document Type: Chapter

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