Do bird perching structures elevate seed rain and seedling establishment in abandoned tropical pasture?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 253-261

  Holl, Karen D ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; BIRD; PASTURE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0032438929     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1998.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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