Measuring the success of reforestation for restoring biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1714-1724

  Derhé, Mia A ^a,b   Murphy, Helen ^b   Monteith, Geoff ^c   Menéndez, Rosa ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

dung beetles; ecological restoration; ecosystem function; functional diversity; functional traits; reforestation; Scarabaeinae; trait based metrics; tropical forest; wet tropics

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMID TROPICS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL RESOURCE; RAINFOREST; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEINAE;

EID: 84979669499     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12728     Document Type: Article

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