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The historical reference in restoration ecology: Re-defining a cornerstone concept

2014-08-01

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Ecological restoration aims to revitalize ecosystem integrity and functionality following severe damage or degradation. Often, however, efforts are hampered by an incomplete or flawed concept of historical ‘reference’ used when choosing or constructing a target ecosystem or landscape to restore ‘to’. This problem may stem from a culturally-skewed interpretation of history or from misunderstanding or underestimatio...

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Literature Corpus work: b17b3ec7-79b0-508f-b098-c9bdb1869524
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.05.007

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