Monitoring soil restoration in an open-pit mine in northern Italy

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-29

  Menta, C ^a   Conti, F D ^a   Pinto, S ^a   Leoni, A ^a   Lozano Fondon C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; QBS ar; Restoration monitoring; Soil microarthropods; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903828822     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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