Tropical rain forest recovery from cyclone damage and fire in Samoa

Biotropica

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 249-259

  Hjerpe, Johan ^a   Hedenâs, Henrik ^a   Elmqvist, Thomas ^b,c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Biodiversity Centre   (Sweden)

^c Department of Systems Ecology ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyclones; Disturbance; Fire; Pioneer species; Recovery; Samoa; Tropical rain forest; Vertebrate seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CYCLONE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION;

AVES; MACARANGA; MACARANGA HARVEYANA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034959245     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2001.tb00176.x     Document Type: Article

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