Rain forest expansion mediated by successional processes in vegetation thickets in the Western Ghats of India

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1067-1080

  Puyravaud, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Dufour, Céline ^a   Aravajy, Subramanian ^a  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Disturbance; India; Nestedness; Rainforest; Succession; Thickets

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; RAINFOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SUCCESSION;

INDIA; KARNATAKA; LINGANAMAKKI;

AVES; CATUNAREGAM; CATUNAREGAM DUMETORUM;

EID: 0038300786     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00882.x     Document Type: Article

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