Does weeding promote regeneration of an indigenous tree community in felled pine plantations in Uganda?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 408-415

  Chapman, Colin A ^a,b   Chapman, Lauren J ^a,b   Zanne, Amy ^a   Burgess, Matthew A ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Degraded areas; Forest management; Forest restoration; Plantations; Regeneration; Tropical forests; Weeding

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; WEED CONTROL;

UGANDA;

EID: 0036085079     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2002.00035.x     Document Type: Article

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