How has the study of forest islands improved the knowledge of tropical forest ecology?;En quoi l'étude des îlots forestiers permet-elle de mieux connaître le fonctionnement de la forêt tropicale?

Revue d'Ecologie (La Terre et la Vie)

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 8, 2002, Pages 181-194

  Leigh Jr , Egbert Giles ^a   Cosson, Jean François ^a   Pons, Jean Marc ^a   Forget, Pierre Michel ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLOODING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0036404803     PISSN: 02497395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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