Tree-shrub interactions during early secondary forest succession in Uganda

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 198-207

  Duncan, R Scot ^a   Chapman, Colin A ^a,b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Degraded lands; Facilitation; Inhibition; Management; Regeneration; Restoration; Secondary forest; Shrubs; Thinning treatments; Timber plantations; Trees; Tropical forest succession

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FACILITATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SHRUB; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

UGANDA;

POACEAE;

EID: 0038684864     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.2003.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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