Early successional pattern of faunal recolonization on rehabilitated iron mine sites at Sanquelim, Goa

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 255-272

  Ganihar, S R ^a  

^a Dhempe College of Arts and Science   (India)

Author keywords

Abandoned iron mines; Arthropods; Recolonization; Revegetation; Seasonality; Similarity; Species diversity; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

FAUNA; MINE; RECOLONIZATION; SUCCESSION;

INDIA;

ACACIA AURICULIFORMIS;

EID: 0032287158     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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