Landscape regeneration by seeds and successional pathways to restore fragile tropandean slopelands

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-252

  Sarmiento, Fausto O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES; PERCIDAE; POACEAE; PSIDIUM; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES);

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0031419028     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3673851     Document Type: Article

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