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Artists who paint landscapes don’t work in cubicles in office buildings. They depend on natural scenery for inspiration and specific detail. So too with ecological restorationists who necessarily begin with natural references as the basis to conceive and formulate their projects. This chapter describes the various kinds of ecological references and how the information they contain can be synthesized into reference models for the preparation of restoration project plans. Later, we relate ecological references to ecosystem trajectories and explore the temporal aspects of ecological references.
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© 2013 Andre F. Clewell and James Aronson
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Clewell, A.F., Aronson, J. (2013). Ecological References. In: Ecological Restoration. The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-59726-323-8_7
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