Pioneers and perches-promising restoration methods for degraded renosterveld habitats?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-23

  Heelemann, Steffen ^a   Krug, Cornelia B ^b   Esler, Karen J ^c   Reisch, Christoph ^a   Poschlod, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Artificial bird perches; Bush clumps; Cape Floristic Region; Fynbos biome; Otholobium hirtum; Underground termitaria

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUBLAND;

SOUTH AFRICA;

AVES; OTHOLOBIUM; TERMITARIA;

EID: 84855445962     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00842.x     Document Type: Article

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