Transplanting native woody legumes: a suitable option for the revegetation of coastal dunes

Ecological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 49-55

  Rodríguez Echeverría, Susana ^a   Roiloa, Sergio R ^b   de la Peña, Eduardo ^c,d   Crisóstomo, João A ^a   Nabais, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acacia; Cytisus; Mutualism; Native and exotic species; Revegetation; Ulex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922005096     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-014-1204-8     Document Type: Article

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