Soil seed banks and regeneration of tropical rain forest from milpa fields at the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico

Biotropica

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 192-209

  Quintana Ascencio, Pedro Francisco ^a   González Espinosa, Mario ^a,b   Ramírez Marcial, Neptali ^a   Domínguez Vázquez, Gabriela ^a   Martínez Icó, Miguel ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD   (Mexico)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILPA; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SUCCESSION;

MEXICO, CHIAPAS STATE, SELVA LACANDONA;

EID: 0030437337     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389074     Document Type: Article

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