The potential of plantations to foster woody regeneration within a deforested landscape in lowland costa rica

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 55-64

  Haggar, Jeremy ^a,d   Wightman, Kevyn ^b   Fisher, Richard ^c  

^a Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Regeneration; Restoration; Tropical plantation; Vochysia

Indexed keywords

VOCHYSIA;

EID: 0030711541     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00194-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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