Small-scale diversity of plant communities and distribution of species niches on a copper rock outcrop in upper Katanga, D.R. Congo

Plant Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-182

  Ilunga wa Ilunga, Edouard ^a,b   Séleck, Maxime ^b   Colinet, Gilles ^b   Faucon, Michel Pierre ^c   Meerts, Pierre ^d   Mahy, Grégory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LUBUMBASHI   (Congo)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE LASALLE BEAUVAIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conservation; Copper; Ecological niche; Heavy metals; Mining activities; Plant community; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880664902     PISSN: 20323913     EISSN: 20323921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2013.816     Document Type: Article

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