A global meta-Analysis on the ecological drivers of forest restoration success

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Crouzeilles, Renato ^a,b,c   Curran, Michael ^d   Ferreira, Mariana S ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^e   Grelle, Carlos E V ^a   Rey Benayas, José M ^f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY   (Brazil)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST RESOURCE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; META-ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; DRIVER; FOREST; HABITAT; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; META ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; FORESTS;

EID: 84970016046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11666     Document Type: Article

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