Quandaries of a decade-long restoration experiment trying to reduce invasive species: Beat them, join them, give up, or start over?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 139-144

  Cordell, Susan ^a   Ostertag, Rebecca ^b   Michaud, Jené ^b   Warman, Laura ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hawaii; Hybrid ecosystems; Invasive species; Long term research; Tropical lowland wet forest

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960089561     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12321     Document Type: Article

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