Evaluating the success of managed realignment for the restoration of salt marshes: Lessons from invertebrate communities

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-75

  Pétillon, Julien ^a   Potier, Simon ^a   Carpentier, Alexandre ^a   Garbutt, Angus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Essex; Intertidal systems; Macro arthropods; Restoration

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RESTORATION;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; ESSEX; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERTIDAL SYSTEMS; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; MACRO-ARTHROPODS; SPIDER ASSEMBLAGES; SUCCESSIONAL PROCESS;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84899821217     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.03.085     Document Type: Article

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