Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession

by Joe Walker, Richard J. Hobbs, Lawrence Walker

Book Overview

This innovative book examines the critical roles of disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, ecological assembly, invasion biology, ecosystem health, and historical ecology in habitat restoration, and argues that restoration within a successional context best incorporates and utilizes the lessons from each of these disciplines. To successfully restore an ecosystem to a state that needs minimal care, the temporal dynamics of successional processes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038735302X
• ISBN13: 9780387353029
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.1" x 7.2"