Ecosystem recovery in terra firme forests after cutting and burning: A comparison on species richness, floristic composition and forest structure in the Jau National Park, Amazonia

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-110

  Ferreira, Leandro V ^a   Prance, Ghillean T ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest recovery; Plant community; Primary forest; Secondary forest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES INVENTORY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL; JAU NATIONAL PARK;

ALEXA; ALEXA GRANDIFLORA; ARECACEAE; BERTHOLLETIA EXCELSA; BURSERACEAE; CAESALPINIOIDEAE; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; ESCLAVEILERA; ESCLAVEILERA GRANDIFLORA; FABACEAE; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LECYTHIDACEAE; MALVACEAE; MYRISTICACEAE; POUROUMA; POUROUMA GUIANENSIS; PROTIUM APICULATUM; SAPOTACEAE; SCLERONEMA MICRANTHUM; URTICACEAE;

EID: 0033026684     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bojl.1998.0224     Document Type: Article

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