Forest recovery in the karst region of Puerto Rico

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 63-75

  Rivera, Luis W ^a   Aide, T Mitchell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Abandoned coffee plantations; Abandoned pastures; Secondary forest; Tropics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENT; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; KARST; REGENERATION;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0032552118     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00349-6     Document Type: Article

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