The effects of ecological rehabilitation on vegetation recruitment: Some observations from the Wet Tropics of North Queensland

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 133-152

  Tucker, Nigel I J ^a   Murphy, Tania M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Frugivory; Rain forest; Recruitment; Rehabilitation; Seed bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030685067     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00200-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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