Introduction: Why Novel Ecosystems?

Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3-8

  Hobbs, Richard J ^a   Higgs, Eric S ^b   Hall, Carol M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ecosystem change; Environmental alteration; Human interventions; Novel ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885782737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118354186.ch1     Document Type: Editorial

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