Using Caribbean pine to establish a mixed plantation: Testing effects of pine canopy removal on plantings of rain forest tree species

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 106, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 211-222

  Ashton, P M S ^a   Gamage, S ^b   Gunatilleke, I A U N ^b   Gunatilleke, C V S ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Caryota urens; Dipterocarps; Enrichment; Pericopsis mooniana; Rain forest; Restoration; Sri Lanka; Swietenia macrophylla

Indexed keywords

FOREST RESTORATION; NURSE SPECIES; RAINFOREST; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHADE TOELRANCE;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0032572502     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(97)00314-9     Document Type: Article

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