Towards calcareous wetland creation in flooded abandoned aggregate quarries: A 3-year field mesocosm study

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 586-595

  Duval, Tim P ^a   Waddington, James M ^a   Branfireun, Brian A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcareous fen; Carex aquatilis; Growth experiment; Quarry; Restoration; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; BELOW GROUND SURFACES; CAREX AQUATILIS; EFFECT OF WATER; GROUND SURFACES; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH EXPERIMENT; MESOCOSMS; QUARRY FLOORS; QUARRY RESTORATION; SURVIVAL RATE; WATER DEPTH; WETLAND CREATION;

AGGLOMERATION; AGRICULTURE; EXPERIMENTS; FLOORS; RESTORATION; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

QUARRIES;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; FEN; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; MESOCOSM; QUARRY; RAMET; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEDGE; SUBSTRATE;

CAREX AQUATILIS;

EID: 77049094176     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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