Responses of woody plant seedlings to edge formation in a lowland tropical rainforest, Amazonia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 135-142

  Sizer, Nigel ^a,b   Tanner, Edmund V J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Edge effects; Forest fragmentation; Growth; Mortality; Rainforest; Recruitment; Woody seedlings

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; GROWTH; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

SOUTH AMERICA;

CECROPIA;

EID: 0032720967     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00076-2     Document Type: Article

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