Prospects for fen meadow restoration on severely degraded fens

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-255

  Klimkowska, Agata ^a,b,c   Van Diggelen, Rudy ^a,b   Grootjans, Ab P ^a,d   Kotowski, Wiktor ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biotic constraints; Degraded fens; Restoration; Seed transfer; Topsoil removal

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FEN; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MEADOW; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEPAGE; SOIL TYPE; TOPSOIL; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 77955560910     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2010.02.004     Document Type: Review

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