The shifting of ecological restoration benchmarks and their social impacts: Digging deeper into Pleistocene re-wilding

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 564-568

  Toledo, David ^a   Agudelo, Marta S ^a   Bentley, Amanda L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Human dimensions; Pleistocene re wilding; Proxy species; Shifting benchmark

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COEVOLUTION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FAUNA; PLEISTOCENE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 80052605858     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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