Restoration of tropical moist forests on bauxite-mined lands in the Brazilian amazon

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-116

  Parrotta, John A ^a   Knowles, Oliver H ^b  

^a US Forest Service   (United States)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0032708823     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1999.72001.x     Document Type: Article

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