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Aboveground-Belowground Linkages, Ecosystem Development, and Ecosystem Restoration

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Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession

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Abstract

All terrestrial ecosystems consist of explicit aboveground and belowground biotic components. Although these have traditionally been considered in isolation from one another, there has been increasing recognition over the past decade or so that these components interact with each other to drive processes at both the community and ecosystem levels of resolution (e.g., van der Putten et al. 2001, Wardle et al. 2004a, Bardgett 2005).

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Wardle, D.A., Peltzer, D.A. (2007). Aboveground-Belowground Linkages, Ecosystem Development, and Ecosystem Restoration. In: Walker, L.R., Walker, J., Hobbs, R.J. (eds) Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession. SPRINGER SERIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35303-6_3

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