Germination cues across the disturbance regime in the Puerto Rican rainforest

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-98

  Myster, Randall W ^a   Everham III, Edwin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; LTER; Neotropic; Rain forest; Regeneration; Seed dynamics

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0033490394     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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