Early Trajectories of Spontaneous Vegetation Recovery after Intensive Agricultural Land Use

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 379-386

  Baeten, Lander ^a   Velghe, Darline ^a   Vanhellemont, Margot ^a   De Frenne, Pieter ^a   Hermy, Martin ^b   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Altered soil properties; Land abandonment; Old fields; Secondary succession; Vegetation recovery; Woody species colonization

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; COLONIZATION; MAIZE; OIL FIELD; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION; WOODY PLANT;

BELGIUM;

SALIX; SALIX CAPREA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78449246397     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00627.x     Document Type: Article

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