Successional age and forest structure in a Costa Rican upper montane Quercus forest

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 681-698

  Kappelle, Maarten ^a   Geuze, Thorwald ^b,c   Leal, Miguel E ^a   Cleef, Antoine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b International Agricultural College   (Netherlands)

^c BOS Found Dutch Forest Devmt C   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Costa Rica; Disturbance; Dynamics; Forest structure; Quercus; Recovery; Regeneration; Secondary succession; Tropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MONTANE FOREST; OAK FOREST; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

FAGACEAE; QUERCUS;

EID: 0030438134     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467400009871     Document Type: Article

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