Advancing the Integration of History and Ecology for Conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 680-687

  Szabó, Péter ^a   Hédl, Radim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Driving forces; Environmental history; Historical ecology; Interdisciplinarity; Restoration; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECADAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; HERITAGE CONSERVATION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY;

EID: 79960524252     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01710.x     Document Type: Article

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