Core Principles for Using Natural Disturbance Regimes to Inform Landscape Management

Managing and Designing Landscapes for Conservation: Moving from Perspectives to Principles

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 408-422

  Hunter, Malcolm L ^a  

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Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Disturbance regimes; Landscape management; Natural dynamics; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889284524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692400.ch35     Document Type: Chapter

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