The role of isolated trees in facilitating tree seedling recruitment at a degraded sub-tropical rainforest site

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 288-297

  Toh, Ing ^a   Gillespie, Melina ^a   Lamb, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; PERCIDAE;

EID: 0033377059     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1999.72022.x     Document Type: Article

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