Structural and floristic heterogeneity in a 30-year-old Costa Rican rain forest restored on pasture through natural secondary succession

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 380-393

  Finegan, B ^a   Delgado, D ^b  

^a Trop Agr Cent Res Higher Educ ^*  (Costa Rica)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Cordia; Forest restoration; Secondary forest; Silviculture; Vochysia

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; PASTURE; RAINFOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0034477044     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2000.80053.x     Document Type: Article

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