An analysis of vegetation restoration on opencast oil shale mines in Estonia

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 200-206

  Pensa, Margus ^a,b   Sellin, Arne ^c   Luud, Aarne ^a   Valgma, Ingo ^d  

^a TALLINN PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Alnus glutinosa (L) Gaertn.; Betula pendula Roth; Forest plantation; Opencast mine; Pinus sylvestris L.; Restoration; Spontaneous succession

Indexed keywords

OIL SHALE; OPENCAST MINING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

ALNUS; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; BETULA; BETULA PENDULA; BETULACEAE; ILEX VERTICILLATA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 3042544788     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00323.x     Document Type: Article

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