Recovering the reptile community after the mine-tailing accident of aznalc.óllar (Southwestern Spain)

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 660-667

  Márquez Ferrando, Rocío ^a   Pleguezuelos, Juan M ^a   Santos, Xavier ^b   Ontiveros, Diego ^a   Fernández Cardenete, Juan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial refuges; Mine spill; Recovering animal communities; Reptiles; Spain

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REPTILE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ANDALUCIA; AZNALCOLLAR; DONANA NATIONAL PARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; GUADIAMAR RIVER; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SEVILLA; SIERRA MORENA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349512131     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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