Effects of forest fragmentation on recruitment patterns in Amazonian tree communities

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 460-464

  Laurance, William F ^a   Ferreira, Leandro V ^a   Rankin De Merona, Judy M ^a   Laurance, Susan G ^a   Hutchings, Roger W ^a   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

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EID: 0031899221     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.97175.x     Document Type: Article

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