Restoring a jarrah forest understorey vegetation after bauxite mining in Western Australia

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2007, Pages

  Koch, John M ^a  

^a ALCOA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bauxite mining; Restoration; Species composition; Species richness; Vegetation; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MINING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 37349120486     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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