Effect of skidder disturbance on commercial tree regeneration in logging gaps in a Bolivian tropical forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 223-230

  Fredericksen, Todd S ^a,b,d   Pariona, William ^a,b,c  

^a Proyecto BOLFOR   (Bolivia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Center for International Forestry Research   (Bolivia)

^d BOLFOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Cariniana ianeirensis; Competing vegetation; Hura crepitans; Pseudolmedia laevis; Regeneration; Schizolobium amazonicum; Silviculture; Soil scarification; Spondias mombin; Tropical forest management

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SOIL COMPACTION;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY GAP; DISTURBANCE; RECRUITMENT; REGENERATION; SCARIFICATION; SILVICULTURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BOLIVIA;

CARINIANA; HURA CREPITANS; POACEAE; PSEUDOLMEDIA LAEVIS; SCHIZOLOBIUM; SCHIZOLOBIUM AMAZONICUM; SPONDIAS; SPONDIAS MOMBIN;

EID: 0037110572     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00767-8     Document Type: Article

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