Restoration of a Mediterranean Postfire Shrubland: Plant Functional Responses to Organic Soil Amendment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 729-741

  Larchevêque, Marie ^a   Ballini, Christine ^a   Baldy, Virginie ^a   Korboulewsky, Nathalie ^a   Ormeño, Elena ^a   Montès, Nicolas ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Drought; Fertilization; Mediterranean shrubland; Nutrition strategies; Organic amendment

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; COMPOST; DROUGHT; HERB; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORGANIC SOIL; PERENNIAL PLANT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUBLAND; SOIL AMENDMENT;

FRANCE;

BRACHYPODIUM RETUSUM; CISTUS; CISTUS ALBIDUS; QUERCUS COCCIFERA; ULEX EUROPAEUS; ULEX PARVIFLORUS;

EID: 77956290550     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00512.x     Document Type: Article

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