Passive restoration is often quite effective: Response to Zahawi et al. (2014)

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 344-346

  Prach, Karel ^a,b,c   del Moral, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Active restoration; Reference sites; Restoration costs; Restoration goals; Spontaneous succession

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84937073716     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12224     Document Type: Article

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