Historical Small-Scale Surface Structures as a Model for Post-Mining Land Reclamation

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 322-330

  Kappes, Heike ^a,b   Clausius, Alexandra ^c   Topp, Werner ^c  

^a Department of Limnology and Conservation Senckenberg ^*  (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charcoal hearth; Deadwood; Microclimate; Organic matter accumulation; Pit mining; Topsoil structuring

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FAUNA; HABITAT RESTORATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MICROCLIMATE; MINING; ORGANIC MATTER; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOPSOIL;

CHILOPODA; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; DIPLOPODA; FAGUS; GASTROPODA; ISOPODA;

EID: 84860191283     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00800.x     Document Type: Article

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