Pine litter from afforestations hinders the establishment of endemic plants in semiarid scrubby habitats of natura 2000 network

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-169

  Navarro Cano, Jose A ^a,b   Barberá, Gonzalo G ^a   Castillo, Víctor M ^a  

^a RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Allelopathy; Dwarf shrub; Ecological restoration; Plant conservation; Secondary succession; Seedling emergence

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ALLELOPATHY; BIOMASS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LEAF LITTER; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANT; PROTECTED AREA; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SOWING; TREE; UNDERSTORY;

SPAIN;

DIPLOTAXIS HARRA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; THYMUS ZYGIS;

EID: 77954390297     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00606.x     Document Type: Article

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