Four centuries of forest clearance and regeneration in the hinterland of a large city

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-295

  Matlack, Glenn R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural history; Conservation; Forest ecology; Forest fragmentation; Forest succession; Fuelwood; Land use history; Suburbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030757607     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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