Forest Landscape Restoration: increasing the positive impacts of forest restoration or simply the area under tree cover?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 178-183

  Mansourian, Stephanie ^a   Stanturf, John A ^b   Derkyi, Mercy Afua Adutwumwaa ^c   Engel, Vera Lex ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b US Forest Service   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Ghana)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bonn Challenge; hectare targets; restoration scale

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TREE;

EID: 85014379634     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12489     Document Type: Article

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