Assessing ecosystem function of restoration plantings in south-eastern Australia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 36-45

  Munro, Nicola T ^a   Fischer, Joern ^b   Wood, Jeff ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landscape Function Analysis; Planting; Reafforestation; Revegetation; Structural complexity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTE; LEAF LITTER; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANTING; PLANTINGS; REAFFORESTATION; SINGLE VARIABLE; SITE TYPES; SOIL STABILITY; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; TREES AND SHRUBS; VEGETATION COVER; WATER INFILTRATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; NUTRIENTS; RESTORATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

INFILTRATION;

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; COMPLEXITY; DICOTYLEDON; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GRASS; INFILTRATION; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LEAF LITTER; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OVERSTORY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL STABILIZATION; VEGETATION COVER;

AUSTRALIA;

POACEAE;

EID: 84864411891     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.06.048     Document Type: Article

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