Impact of Fencing on the Recovery of the Ground Flora on Heavily Eroded Slopes of a Deciduous Forest

Environmental Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-76

  Godefroid, Sandrine ^a   Massant, Wim ^a   Weyembergh, Gisele ^a   Koedam, Nico ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Forest plants; Recovery strategy; Recreation impact; Resiliency; Site recovery; Site restoration

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PUBLIC POLICY; VEGETATION;

ERODED SLOPES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREES;

LUZULA; LUZULA SYLVATICA;

EID: 0142063087     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-002-2705-8     Document Type: Article

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