Can ecological restoration meet the twin challenges of global change and scaling up, without losing its unique promise and core values?

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 266-281

  Woodworth, Paddy ^a,b  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

'novel' ecosystems concept; Ecological restoration; global change; historical reference system; historical trajectory; restoration ecology; scaling up

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028439416     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2017001     Document Type: Article

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