Effect of surrounding vegetation on edge-related tree mortality in Amazonian forest fragments

Biological Conservation

Volumn 91, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 129-134

  Mesquita, Rita C G ^a   Delamônica, Patricia ^a   Laurance, William F ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b Biodiversity Support Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforest; Edge effects; Forest dynamics; Forest fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Matrix type; Secondary forest; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; FOREST EDGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

CECROPIA; VISMIA;

EID: 0344110155     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00086-5     Document Type: Article

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