Terrestrial Insect Communities and the Restoration of an Industrially Perturbed Landscape: Assessing Success and Surrogacy

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 73-84

  Babin Fenske, Jennifer ^a   Anand, Madhur ^a,b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ants; Carabidae; Copper nickel smelter; Diversity; Formicidae; Ground beetles; Mining pollution; Restoration success; Richness; Terrestrial insects

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREMEDIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SMELTING;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SUDBURY;

ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77956521587     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00665.x     Document Type: Article

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