Land-use history and forest regeneration in the Cayey Mountains, Puerto Rico

Ecosystems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 217-228

  Pascarella, John B ^a,b   Aide, T Mitchell ^a   Serrano, Mayra I ^a   Zimmerman, Jess K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b VALDOSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Chronosequence; Coffee plantation; Land use history; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Pasture; Puerto Rico; Secondary succession; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033924981     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100210000021     Document Type: Article

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