Success Rates for Reintroductions of Eight Perennial Plant Species after 15 Years

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-303

  Drayton, Brian ^a   Primack, Richard B ^b  

^a TERC   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Plant conservation; Plant reintroduction; Reintroduction methods

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PERENNIAL PLANT; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 84860118057     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00860.x     Document Type: Article

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