Landscape restoration, natural regeneration, and the forests of the future

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 251-257

  Chazdon, Robin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted natural regeneration; farmer managedn atural regeneration; landscape restoration; large scale restoration; spatial prioritization; succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028435290     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2016035     Document Type: Article

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