Disturbance of Dabao highway construction on plant species and soil nutrients in Longitudinal Range Gorge Region (LRGR) of Southwestern China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 158, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 545-559

  Cui, Baoshan ^a   Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Zhang, Kejiang ^b   Li, Shaocai ^a   Dong, Shikui ^a   Bai, Junhong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Disturbance; Ecosystem; Highway construction; Longitudinal Range Gorge Region (LRGR); Plant species; Soil nutrients

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION SITES; CONTROL LEVEL; DOWNSLOPE; EXOTIC SPECIES; HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION; MICROHABITATS; PLANT SPECIES; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VULNERABLE ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; NUTRIENTS; POTASSIUM; ROADS AND STREETS;

SOILS;

POTASSIUM;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHINA; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; GRASSLAND; HERB; HIGHWAY; LONGITUDINAL RANGE GORGE REGION; NUTRIENT; PLANT; SHRUB; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SOIL; TRANSPORTATION;

CHINA; LONGITUDINAL RANGE GORGE REGION;

AGERATINA ADENOPHORA;

EID: 72349097685     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0605-y     Document Type: Article

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