Restoration as experiment

Botanical Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 459-468

  Howe, Henry Franklin ^a   Martínez Garza, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alternative states; Ecological processes; Mosaics within mosaics; Systemic experimental restoration; Trial and error restoration; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924742033     PISSN: 20074298     EISSN: 20074476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17129/botsci.146     Document Type: Review

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