Avian population and community dynamics in response to vegetation restoration on reclaimed mine lands in southwest Virginia
Coal surface-mining is often implicated for its negative impacts on native flora and fauna. However, some studies suggest that, in reclaiming land after mining, there may be potential to create early successional habitat needed by many avian species currently in decline throughout eastern North Amer...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32773 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05142012-132301/ |