Plant Species Patterns and Restoration Perspectives in the Highly Disturbed Environment of the Carrara Marble Quarries (Apuan Alps, Italy)

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2011, Pages 32-42

  Gentili, Rodolfo ^a   Sgorbati, Sergio ^a   Baroni, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alien species; Biodiversity; Geoecology; Landform vegetation units; Landscape restoration; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROTECTED AREA; QUARRYING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

APENNINES; APUANE ALPS; ITALY; TUSCANY;

EID: 78651320501     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00712.x     Document Type: Article

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