The impacts of road and walking trails upon adjacent vegetation: Effects of road building materials on species composition in a nutrient poor environment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3839-3849

  Müllerová, Jana ^a   Vítková, Michaela ^a   Vítek, Ondřej ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alkalinization effect; Artic alpine tundra; Human disturbances; Multispectral aerial photography; Vegetation changes

Indexed keywords

ALKALINIZATION EFFECT; ARTIC-ALPINE TUNDRA; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; VEGETATION CHANGES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALKALINITY; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRAVEL; LANDFORMS; NUTRIENTS; PARKS; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; ROADSIDES; SOILS;

VEGETATION;

ASPHALT;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALKALINIZATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GPS; LANDSCAPE; SOIL PROPERTY; TUNDRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ALKALINIZATION; ALPINE TUNDRA; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; PH; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVEGETATION; ROAD; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VEGETATION; WALKING TRAIL; WATER TRANSPORT;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CZECH REPUBLIC; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PLANTS; SOIL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WALKING;

EID: 80051793094     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.06.056     Document Type: Article

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