Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Models of Ecosystem Dynamics as Frameworks for Restoration Ecology / Katharine N. Suding & Richard J. Hobbs (p. 3-21) -- Critical Trasnitions and Regime Shifts in Ecosystems: Consolidating Recent Advances / Stephen R. Carpenter & Marten Scheffeer (p. 22-32) -- Transition Dynamics in Succession: Implications for Rates, Trajectories, and Restoration / Lawrence R. Walker & Roger del Moral (p. 33-49) -- Inference about Complex Ecosystem Dynamics in Ecological Research and Restoration Practice / Arne Schröder (p. 50-62) -- Thresholds in Ecological and Linked Social-Ecological Systems: Application to Restoration / Elizabeth G. King & Steven Whisenant (p. 63-77) -- Resilience Theory in Models of Rangeland Ecology and Restoration: The Evolution and Application of a Paradigm / Brandon T. Bestelmeyer ... [et al.] (p. 78-95) -- Long-Term Dynamics and Rehabilitation of Woody Ecosystems in Dryland South Island, New Zeland / Susan Walker ... [et al.] (p. 99-111) -- Dryland Dynamics and Restoration: Perspectives for the Use of Climatic Swings / Milena Holmgren (p. 112-123) -- Developing Data-Drive Descriptive Models for Californian Grasslands / James W. Bartolome ... [et al.] (p. 124-135) -- Management and Restoration in African Savannas: Interactions and Feedbacks / Mahesh Sankaran & T. Michael Anderson (p. 136-155) -- Rapid Internal Plant-Soil Feedbacks Lead to Alternative Stable States in Temperate Australian Grassy Woodlands / Suzanne M. Prober ... [et al.] (p. 156-168) -- A Revised State-and-Transition Model for the Restoration of Woodlands in Western Australia / Rachel J. Standish ... [et al.] (p. 169-188) -- A State-and-Transition Model for the Recovery of Abandoned Farmland in New Zeland / Rachel J. Standish ... [et al.] (p. 189-205) -- Dynamics and Restoration of Australian Tropical and Subtropical Rainforests / John Kanowski ... [et al.] (p. 206-220) -- Interactions between Lesser Snow Geese and Arctic Coastal Vegetation Leading to Alternative Stable States / I. Tanya Handa & Robert L. Jefferies (p. 221-235) -- Feedbacks That Might Sustain Natural, Invaded, and Restored States in Herbaceous Wetlands / Joy B. Zedler (p. 236-258) -- Development of Conceptual Models for Ecological Regime Change in Temporary Australian Wetlands / Lien L. Sim ... [et al.] (p. 259-279) -- State-and-Transition Models for Mining Restoration in Australia / Carl Grant (p. 280-294) -- An Alternative Stable State Model for Landscape-Scale Restoration in South Australia / Peter Cale & Nigel Willoughby (p. 295-310) -- Alternative Stable States for Planning and Implementing Restoration of Production Systems in Michoacán, México / Roberto Lindig-Cisneros (p. 311-322) -- Synthesis: Are New Models for Ecosystem Dynamics Scientifically Robust and Helpful in Guiding Restoration Projects? / Richard J. Hobbs & Katharine N. Suding (p. 325-333).

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