Quick Target Vegetation Recovery after Restorative Shrub Removal and Mowing in a Calcareous Fen

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 331-338

  Sundberg, Sebastian ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Bryophyte; Grazing; Juniperus communis; Peatland; Rich fen; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; BRYOPHYTE; CONSERVATION STATUS; GRAZING; PEATLAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BOS; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84860142531     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00782.x     Document Type: Article

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