Recovery of biomass following shifting cultivation in dry tropical forests of the Yucatan

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-97

  Read, Larissa ^a   Lawrence, Deborah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Dry tropical forest; Land use change; Secondary forest; Shifting cultivation; Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DRY FOREST; LAND USE CHANGE; SECONDARY FOREST; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO; YUCATAN STATE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037586461     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0085:ROBFSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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