Restoration Ecology
Subtitle: A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research
Contributors: William R. Jordan (Editor); Michael E. Gilpin (Editor); John D. Aber (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780521331104
Subjects: Environmental science; Land Conservation; Science / Biology; Nature conservation; Ecology; Reclamation of land; Restoration ecology; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: Just over fifty years ago, in the fall of 1935, a small contingent of Civilian Conservation Corps workers began replanting tallgrass prairie on a played-out piece of farmland on the edge of Madison that had recently been acquired by the University Of Wisconsin for an arboretum.