Restoring Limestone Quarries: Hayseed, Commercial Seed Mixture or Spontaneous Succession?

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 316-324

  Gilardelli, Federica ^a   Sgorbati, Sergio ^a   Citterio, Sandra ^a   Gentili, Rodolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Commercial seed mixture; Cost benefit analysis; Hayseed; Hydroseeding; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; FORESTRY; LIMESTONE; MIXTURES; PLANTS (BOTANY); QUARRIES; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEGETATION;

COMMERCIAL SEEDS; ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES; HAYSEED; HYDROSEEDING; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL REGENERATION; NON-NATIVE SPECIES; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

LOLIUM PERENNE;

EID: 84883633089     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2244     Document Type: Article

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