Local and landscape factors affecting communities of plants and diurnal Lepidoptera in black coal spoil heaps: Implications for restoration management

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 252-260

  Tropek, Robert ^a,b   Hejda, Martin ^c   Kadlec, Tomas ^d   Spitzer, Lukas ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^d CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Disturbances; Habitat heterogeneity; Landscape restoration; Postindustrial biotopes; Spontaneous succession

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; DISTURBANCES; HABITAT HETEROGENEITIES; LANDSCAPE RESTORATION; POSTINDUSTRIAL BIOTOPES; SPONTANEOUS SUCCESSION;

BIODIVERSITY; BITUMINOUS COAL; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND RECLAMATION; RESTORATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; COAL; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT RESTORATION; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MINING; MOTH; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPOIL HEAP; SUCCESSION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TOPSOIL; VASCULAR PLANT;

CZECH REPUBLIC; KLADNO; STREDOCESKY;

EID: 84877879589     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2013.04.024     Document Type: Article

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