Resilience of Native Plant Community Following Manual Control of Invasive Cinchona pubescens in Galápagos

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 103-112

  Jäger, Heinke ^a,b   Kowarik, Ingo ^a,b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Conservation; Disturbance; Facilitation; National park; Oceanic island; Red quinine tree; Restoration; Santa Cruz Island

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FACILITATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIONAL PARK; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION; REGENERATION; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TREE;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; SANTA CRUZ [GALAPAGOS ISLANDS];

CINCHONA; CINCHONA PUBESCENS; FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RUBUS NIVEUS; STACHYS; STACHYS AGRARIA;

EID: 77956516266     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00657.x     Document Type: Article

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