The book gives readers a broad understanding of why agricultural land is abandoned, the factors that determine the ecological recovery of old fields, and how this understanding contributes to theoretical and applied ecology.

This book brings together researchers from a range of disciplines together with practitioners and policy makers to explore the questions surrounding novel ecosystems.

This innovative book integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory.

This book summarizes the main discoveries, management insights and policy initiatives in the science, management and policy arenas associated with temperate woodlands in Australia.

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Harold A. Mooney and Richard J. Hobbs At present there is enormous concern about the changes that are occurring on the surface of the earth and in the earth's atmosphere, primarily as a result of human activities.

Social historians will look back on the 1980s as a period when a global consciousness of the environment developed.

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