Opencast mine restoration in a Mediterranean semi-arid environment: Failure of some common practices

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 183-191

  Josa, Ramon ^a   Jorba, Montse ^b   Vallejo, V Ramon ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fast growing species; Mediterranean vegetation; Novel soil plant systems; Quarry restoration; Stony substrates; Stress resistant plants; Support irrigation

Indexed keywords

FAST-GROWING SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; QUARRY RESTORATION; SOIL PLANT SYSTEMS; STRESS-RESISTANT PLANTS;

DROUGHT; EMBANKMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; IRRIGATION; LYSIMETERS; QUARRIES; RESTORATION; SOIL SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

SUBSTRATES;

EMBANKMENT; EROSION CONTROL; HERB; IRRIGATION; LYSIMETER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OPENCAST MINING; QUARRY; RAINFALL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SUBSTRATE; SURVIVAL; WATER CONTENT; WATER STRESS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84857969501     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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