Soil recovery after removal of the N2-fixing invasive Acacia longifolia: Consequences for ecosystem restoration

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 813-823

  Marchante, Elizabete ^a,b   Kjøller, Annelise ^b   Struwe, Sten ^b   Freitas, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

glucosaminidase activity; C and N cycling; Ecosystem processes; Microbial activity and biomass; Potential nitrification; Soil ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; LEGUME; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NATURE RESERVE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL NUTRIENT;

AVEIRO [PORTUGAL]; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SAO JACINTO NATURE RESERVE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ACACIA; ACACIA LONGIFOLIA;

EID: 61449135237     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9295-1     Document Type: Article

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