Fauna community trends during early restoration of alluvial open forest/woodland ecosystems on former agricultural land

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 787-799

  Smith, Geoffrey C ^a   Lewis, Tom ^b   Hogan, Luke D ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND HERBARIUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active restoration; Offsets; Open forest woodland; Passive restoration; Vertebrate fauna

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FAUNA; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VERTEBRATE; WOODLAND;

AVES; EUCALYPTUS TERETICORNIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84945496268     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12269     Document Type: Article

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