Long-term effects of reclamation treatments on plant succession in Iceland

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 268-278

  Gretarsdottir, Jarngerdur ^a   Aradottir, Asa L ^a   Vandvik, Vigdis ^b   Heegaard, Einar ^b   Birks, H J B ^b,c  

^a Soil Conservation Service of Iceland   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erosion; Grass seeding; Iceland; Natural colonization; Nurse species; Ordination; Reclamation; Restoration; Shrubs; Succession

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; GRASS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB; SUCCESSION;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA SUBSP. PETRAEA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; EMPETRUM; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; MINUARTIA; MINUARTIA RUBELLA; POACEAE;

EID: 3042648077     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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