May rare metallophytes benefit from disturbed soils following mining activity? The case of the Crepidorhopalon tenuis in Katanga (D. R. Congo)

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-343

  Faucon, Michel Pierre ^a,b   Parmentier, Ingrid ^a   Colinet, Gilles ^c   Mahy, Grégory ^c   Ngongo Luhembwe, Michel ^b   Meerts, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LUBUMBASHI   (Congo)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic habitats; Conservation; Ecological niche; Metallophyte; Plant communities; Restoration

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTAMINATED LAND; DISTURBANCE; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; MINING; NICHE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RARE SPECIES; RECOLONIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; KATANGA;

CREPIDORHOPALON; SCROPHULARIACEAE;

EID: 79955155604     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00585.x     Document Type: Article

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