Book ID: 2208
Cairns, John (ed.)
The recovery process in damaged ecosystems. 1980. figs. tabs. X,167 p. 8vo. Cloth.
Contents: Introduction/ The relationship between succession and therecovery process in ecosystems/ The ecological factors that produceperturbation-dependent ecosystems/ To rehabilitate and restore GreatLake ecosystems/ Recovery patterns of restored major plant communitiesin the United States: High to low altitude, desert to marine/ Influenceof ecosystem structure and perturbation history on recovery processes/Multivariate quantification of community recovery/ The Ohi'a Diebackphenomenon in the Hawaiian rain forest/ Concluding statement/ Index.