Earthworm responses to different reclamation processes in post opencast mining lands during succession

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Hlava, Jakub ^a   Hlavová, Anna ^a   Hakl, Josef ^a   Fér, Miroslav ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecology; Reclaimed land; Soil fauna; Spoils; Succession

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOILS; TIMBER;

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; EARTHWORM COMMUNITIES; RECLAIMED LAND; RECLAMATION PROCESS; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SPOILS; SUCCESSION;

RECLAMATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EARTHWORM; LAND RECLAMATION; OPENCAST MINING; SOIL FAUNA; SPOIL HEAP; SUCCESSION;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COAL MINING; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; EARTHWORM; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; FORESTRY; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); MINING; NONHUMAN; OPENCAST MINING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOIL;

COAL; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; COAL; COAL MINING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; FORESTRY; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL;

EID: 84957873505     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4108-8     Document Type: Article

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