Long-term observations of rain forest succession, tree diversity and responses to disturbance

Plant Ecology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 183-199

  Sheil, Douglas ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Budongo; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Monitoring; Monodominance; Permanent sample plot; Species richness

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

UGANDA;

CYNOMETRA;

EID: 0035653785     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013243411819     Document Type: Article

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