Forest Succession Endangers the Special Ant Fauna of Abandoned Quarries along the River Meuse (Wallonia, Belgium)

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 681-690

  Dekoninck, Wouter ^a,b   Hendrickx, Frederik ^a,b   Dethier, Michel ^c   Maelfait, Jean Pierre ^b,d  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conservation value; Diversity; Forest succession; Formicidae; Quarry restoration; Refuges; Xeromorphic grasslands

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINE; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; PITFALL TRAP; PRIMARY SUCCESSION;

BELGIUM; MEUSE RIVER; WALLONIA;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 77956317667     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00499.x     Document Type: Article

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