Advances in restoration ecology: Rising to the challenges of the coming decades

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Perring, Michael P ^a,b   Standish, Rachel J ^a,c   Price, Jodi N ^a   Craig, Michael D ^a,c   Erickson, Todd E ^a,d   Ruthrof, Katinka X ^c   Whiteley, Andrew S ^a   Valentine, Leonie E ^a   Hobbs, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d KINGS PARK AND BOTANIC GARDEN   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Community assembly; Ecosystem function; Ecosystem services; ESA centennial paper; Faunal restoration; Global change; Landscape scale; Novel ecosystems; Resilience; Socio ecological systems; Traits; Trophic networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978542854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES15-00121.1     Document Type: Article

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