Elfin woodland recovery 30 years after a plane wreck in Puerto Rico's Luquillo Mountains

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Weaver, Peter L ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; REGENERATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0034190593     PISSN: 00086452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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