Ecology and management of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) in the Chimanes Forest, Beni, Bolivia

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-34

  Gullison, R E ^a,b   Panfil, S N ^a,c   Strouse, J J ^a,d   Hubbell, S P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d 2018 Master Drive ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; conservation; demography; deposition; fecundity; flood; growth; life history; sustainable; tropical

Indexed keywords

SWIETENIA; SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA;

EID: 0030456822     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bojl.1996.0046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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