Ecological restoration of central european mining sites: A summary of a multi-site analysis

Landscape Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 263-268

  Prach, Karel ^a,b   Řehounková, Klára ^a,b   Řehounek, Jiří ^c   Konvalinková, Petra ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c Calla Association for Environmental Conservation   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Disturbed sites; Ecological landscape; Landscape reclamation; Landscape scale; Spontaneous succession; Technical reclamation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COAL MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; LAND RECLAMATION; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 79952690175     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2010.547571     Document Type: Article

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