Have we been successful? Monitoring horizontal forest complexity for forest restoration projects

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 8-17

  Dickinson, Yvette ^a   Pelz, Kristen ^b   Giles, Emma ^b   Howie, Josh ^c  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Forest restoration; Monitoring; Participatory forest management; Spatial heterogeneity; Structural complexity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COMPLEXITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; MONITORING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STAKEHOLDER;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84954367293     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12291     Document Type: Article

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