Impact of habitat quality on forest plant species colonization

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 157-170

  Honnay, Olivier ^a   Hermy, Martin ^a   Coppin, Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ancient forest plant species; Forest ecosystem resilience; GIS; Historical ecology; Succession

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; RECOLONIZATION;

EID: 0033594172     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00396-X     Document Type: Article

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