Resilience, Restoration, and Riparian Ecosystems: Case Study of a Dryland, Urban River

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-111

  White, Jacqueline M ^a   Stromberg, Juliet C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Resilience; Riparian; Seed bank; Urbanization; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FLOODPLAIN; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEED BANK; URBANIZATION;

ARIZONA; SALT RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651228592     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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