Roads as ecological edges for rehabilitating coastal dune assemblages in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-49

  Weiermans, Jacolette ^a   van Aarde, Rudi J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Birds; Edge effects; Millipedes; Mining; Rehabilitation; Roads; Rodents

Indexed keywords

DUNE; EDGE EFFECT; MINING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; ROAD;

SOUTH AFRICA;

AVES; DIPLOPODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037367088     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2003.00026.x     Document Type: Article

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