Neotropical secondary forest succession: Changes in structural and functional characteristics

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 148, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 185-206

  Guariguata, Manuel R ^a   Ostertag, Rebecca ^b,c  

^a CATIE   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Forest productivity; Forest regeneration; Forest succession; Land use history; Land use intensity; Neotropics; Pasture conversion; Tropical rainforest; Tropical soils

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SPECIES REPLACEMENT;

REFORESTATION;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; SECONDARY FOREST; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0035399878     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(00)00535-1     Document Type: Article

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