Epiphyte vegetation and diversity on remnant trees after forest clearance in Southern Veracruz, Mexico

Biological Conservation

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-111

  Hietz Seifert, Ursula ^a,c   Hietz, Peter ^a,b   Guevara, Sergio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deforestation; Epiphytes; Lowland rainforest; Pasture

Indexed keywords

EPIPHYTE; FIG; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; RAINFOREST;

MEXICO, VERACRUZ, LOS TUXTLAS;

AVES; CEDRELA; CITRUS; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0029668716     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3207(95)00071-2     Document Type: Article

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