The Ridgefield Multiple Ecosystem Services Experiment: Can restoration of former agricultural land achieve multiple outcomes?

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 163, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-27

  Perring, Michael P ^a   Standish, Rachel J ^a   Hulvey, Kristin B ^a   Lach, Lori ^a   Morald, Tim K ^a   Parsons, Rebecca ^a   Didham, Raphael K ^a,b   Hobbs, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration, Global change, Novel ecosystem, Old field, Plant trait approach, Ecosystem service trade offs

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; MONOCULTURE; NATIVE SPECIES; NITROGEN; OLD FIELD; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TRADE-OFF;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS LOXOPHLEBA;

EID: 84870289830     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.02.016     Document Type: Article

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