Creating complex habitats for restoration and reconciliation

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 307-313

  Loke, Lynette H L ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^b,c   Bouma, Tjeerd J ^d,e   Todd, Peter A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificial substrates; Habitat heterogeneity; Novel ecosystems; Reconciliation ecology; Restoration ecology; Structural complexity

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FRACTAL DIMENSION; RESTORATION;

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; HABITAT HETEROGENEITIES; NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATE; COMPLEXITY; HABITAT RESTORATION; HETEROGENEITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 84922800795     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.01.037     Document Type: Article

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