Structural development of vegetation on rehabilitated North Stradbroke Island: Above/belowground feedback may facilitate alternative ecological outcomes

Ecological Processes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Audet, Patrick ^a   Gravina, Amanda ^a   Glenn, Vanessa ^a   Mckenna, Phill ^a   Vickers, Helen ^a   Gillespie, Melina ^a   Mulligan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Eucalypts; Forest regeneration; Mineral sands; Mining; Mono dominance

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; MINING; REFORESTATION; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; EUCALYPTS; FOREST REGENERATION; MINERAL SANDS; MONO-DOMINANCE;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MINING; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND; QUEENSLAND;

ALLOCASUARINA LITTORALIS; CASUARINA;

EID: 84941599184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-1709-2-20     Document Type: Article

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