Plant and invertebrate assemblages on waste rock at Wangaloa coal mine, Otago, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 311-319

  Rufaut, Cathy G ^a   Hammit, S ^b   Craw, D ^a   Clearwater, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal mine; Invertebrates; Natural regeneration; Plants; Quartz pebbles; Siltstone; Waste rock

Indexed keywords

COAL MINE; INVERTEBRATE; PLANT; REGENERATION; REVEGETATION; SILTSTONE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND; WANGALOA MINE;

COLLEMBOLA; INVERTEBRATA; KUNZEA; KUNZEA ERICOIDES; LEPTOSPERMUM; LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM;

EID: 33846629051     PISSN: 01106465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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