Applied nucleation as a forest restoration strategy

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 265, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-46

  Corbin, Jeffrey D ^a   Holl, Karen D ^b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Facilitation; Plantation; Recruitment foci; Reforestation; Succession

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FACILITATION; PLANTATION; RECRUITMENT FOCI; SUCCESSION;

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTING; NUCLEATION; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; REVEGETATION;

CONSERVATION;

DEFORESTATION; FACILITATION; FOREST COVER; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT TYPE; NUCLEATION; RECOLONIZATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; SUCCESSION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTS; NUCLEATION; PLANTATIONS; RECRUITMENT; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION;

EID: 82055200055     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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