Which landscape size best predicts the influence of forest cover on restoration success? A global meta-analysis on the scale of effect

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 440-448

  Crouzeilles, Renato ^a,b   Curran, Michael ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY   (Brazil)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Birds; Buffer size; Fragmentation; Habitat loss; Invertebrates; Mammals; Reptiles; Species composition; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BUFFER ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST COVER; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HERPETOFAUNA; INVERTEBRATE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MAMMAL; META-ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PERSISTENCE; PLANT; REPTILE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84958916602     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12590     Document Type: Article

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