Roadside Reclamation Outside the Revegetation Season: Management Options under Schedule Pressure

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-92

  Mola, Ignacio ^a   Jiménez, María D ^b   López Jiménez, Nicolás ^b   Casado, Miguel A ^b   Balaguer, Luis ^b  

^a Obrascón Huarte Lain   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geotechnical stability; Hydroseed; Roadside vegetation; Seed bank; Seed rain; Topsoil

Indexed keywords

RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEED BANK; SEED RAIN; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL TEXTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION COVER;

SPAIN;

EID: 78651256002     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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