Exploitation of Annual and Perennial Herbaceous Species for the Rehabilitation of a Sand Quarry in a Mediterranean Environment

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 346-356

  Porqueddu, Claudio ^a   Re, Giovanni Antonio ^a   Sanna, Federico ^a   Piluzza, Giovanna ^a   Sulas, Leonardo ^a   Franca, Antonio ^a   Bullitta, Simonetta ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forbs; Grasses; Legumes; Native species; Persistence; Quarrying; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); QUARRYING; VEGETATION;

FORBS; GRASSES; LEGUMES; NATIVE SPECIES; PERSISTENCE;

QUARRIES;

AEGILOPS GENICULATA; ASTERACEAE; CHRYSANTHEMUM CORONARIUM; CICHORIUM INTYBUS; CYNODON DACTYLON; FABACEAE; LOLIUM RIGIDUM; LOTUS CYTISOIDES; MELILOTUS INDICA; ORNITHOPUS SATIVUS; POACEAE; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM;

EID: 84957718284     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2235     Document Type: Article

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