Soil dumping techniques and afforestation drive ground-dwelling beetle assemblages in a 25-year-old open-cast mining reclamation area

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 751-756

  Topp, Werner ^a   Thelen, Katrin ^a   Kappes, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Biodiversity; Coleoptera; Heterogeneity; Restoration; Soil dumping technique

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLAGE CHARACTERISTICS; CANOPY COVER; COLEOPTERA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FOREST SPECIES; GERMANY; HETEROGENEITY; OPEN-CAST MINING; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SPECIES ASSEMBLAGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPEED-UPS;

BIODIVERSITY; LIGNITE MINES; RECLAMATION; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SOILS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

LAND RECLAMATION;

ABUNDANCE; AFFORESTATION; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND RECLAMATION; LIGNITE; OPENCAST MINING; PITFALL TRAP; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDING; SOIL CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TOPSOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTATION; HETEROGENEITY; LAND RECLAMATION; LIGNITE; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SOIL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

GERMANY; HAMBACH; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 77953134850     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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