Restoring forests: What constitutes success in the twenty-first century?

New Forests

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 601-614

  Jacobs, Douglass F ^a   Oliet, Juan A ^b   Aronson, James ^c,d   Bolte, Andreas ^e   Bullock, James M ^f   Donoso, Pablo J ^g   Landhäusser, Simon M ^h   Madsen, Palle ⁱ   Peng, Shaolin ^j   Rey Benayas, José M ^k   Weber, John C ^l  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^e THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^j SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^l WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

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Author keywords

Adaptive management; Ecological resilience; Ecosystem services; Global change; Native species; Reference ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944457368     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-015-9513-5     Document Type: Editorial

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