Environmental conservation and restoration ecology: two facets of the same problem

Restoration ecology has often been regarded as a subordinate component of conservation biology and yet the two disciplines differ from each other. Conservation aims at staving off extinction, i.e. preserving ecological structures and services which still exist, however endangered they may be. On the...

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Main Author: K. M. Urbanska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2000-03-01
Series:Web Ecology
Online Access:http://www.web-ecol.net/1/20/2000/we-1-20-2000.pdf