Restoration of two small Mediterranean lagoons: The dynamics of submerged macrophytes and factors that affect the success of revegetation

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-15

  Rodrigo, María A ^a   Rojo, Carmen ^a   Alonso Guillén, José L ^a   Vera, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Delegación de la Comunidad Valenciana ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Exclosures experiment; Fish disturbance; Macrophyte germination; Macrophyte re establishment; Seed bank; Transformed rice field; Waterfowl grazing

Indexed keywords

MACROPHYTE RE ESTABLISHMENTS; MACROPHYTES; RICE FIELDS; SEED BANK; WATERFOWL GRAZING;

CULTIVATION; FISH; LAKES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RESTORATION; REVEGETATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SHELLFISH; SOIL CONSERVATION; TISSUE; VEGETATION;

SEED;

ALGA; AQUATIC PLANT; BIOMASS; BIRD; COASTAL LAGOON; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRAYFISH; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; EPIPHYTE; FISH; GERMINATION; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROPHYTE; PADDY FIELD; PHYTOPLANKTON; RECOLONIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEASONALITY; SEED BANK; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WATERFOWL;

ALBUFERA NATURAL PARK; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; SPAIN; VALENCIA [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA];

EID: 84874436661     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.01.022     Document Type: Article

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