Early vegetation succession and management options on a brackish sediment dike

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 349-364

  Piesschaert, Frederic ^a   Mertens, Jan ^b   Huybrechts, Willy ^a   De Rache, Paul ^c  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Port of Antwerp   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atriplicetum littoralis; Beneficial use; DCA; Dredged material; Landscape dike; Spontaneous development; Upland disposal

Indexed keywords

DREDGING; FLOODS; LAND USE; SALTS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ATRIPLICETUM LITTORALIS; BENEFICIAL USE; DCA; DREDGED MATERIAL; LANDSCAPE DIKE; SPONTANEOUS DEVELOPMENT; UPLAND DISPOSAL;

SEDIMENTS;

DIKE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MOWING; SOWING; SUCCESSION;

ANTWERP [BELGIUM]; BELGIUM; BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ELYMUS; URTICA;

EID: 27644561495     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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