Restoration and "novel ecosystems": Priority or paradox?

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 217-226

  Meine, Curt ^a  

^a Center for Humans and Nature   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldo Leopold; ecological restoration; landethic; novel ecosystems; resilience; wilderness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028406246     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2016037     Document Type: Article

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