Photosynthetic responses to light for rainforest seedlings planted in abandoned pasture, Costa Rica

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 382-391

  Loik, Michael E ^a   Holl, Karen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT RESTORATION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEEDLING;

COSTA RICA;

CALOPHYLLUM BRASILIENSE; OCOTEA GLAUCOSERICEA; OCOTEA WHITEI; SIDEROXYLON PORTORICENSE;

EID: 0033501282     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1999.72033.x     Document Type: Article

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