Factors affecting site productivity of a Costa Rican secondary rain forest in relation to Vochysia ferruginea, a commercially valuable canopy tree species

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 118, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 73-81

  Herrera, Bernal ^a   Campos, José J ^a   Finegan, Bryan ^a   Alvarado, Alfredo ^b  

^a CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^b Ctro Invest Agronomicas Univ C   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Forest management; Forest soils; Productivity; Site quality; Succession; Vochysia ferruginea

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PRODUCTIVITY; RAINFOREST; SITE EFFECT; SUBSTRATE;

COSTA RICA;

VOCHYSIA FERRUGINEA;

EID: 0033553789     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00489-7     Document Type: Article

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