The role of species traits in mediating functional recovery during matrix restoration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Barnes, Andrew D ^a,b   Emberson, Rowan M ^c   Krell, Frank Thorsten ^d   Didham, Raphael K ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVALESCENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COLEOPTERA;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; FORESTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84918842004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115385     Document Type: Article

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