Evaluating restoration success in urban forest plantings in Hamilton, New Zealand

Urban Habitats

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  MacKay, D Bruce ^a   Wehi, Priscilla M ^a   Clarkson, Bruce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Enrichment planting; Management; Regeneration; Restoration; Succession; Urban; Vegetation composition

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NATIVE SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN FORESTRY;

HAMILTON [WAIKATO]; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIKATO;

EID: 81455128948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15417115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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