An ecosystem report on the Panama Canal: Monitoring the status of the forest communities and the watershed

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-95

  Ibáñez, Roberto ^a,b   Condit, Richard ^a   Angehr, George ^a   Aguilar, Salomón ^a,b   García, Tomas ^a,b   Martínez, Raul ^a,b   Sanjur, Amelia ^b   Stallard, Robert ^c   Wright, S Joseph ^a   Rand, A Stanley ^a   Heckadon, Stanley ^a  

^a APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente   (Panama)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental assessment; Forest communities; Human population; Hydrological aspects; Panama Canal; Vertebrate populations; Watershed monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATERSHEDS;

FORESTS; NATIONAL PARKS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PANAMA; POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; REDUCTION; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES COMPOSITION; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED; ANIMAL; FORESTRY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; SEWAGE; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WILD ANIMAL;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA CANAL; PANAMA CANAL ZONE;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

RAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PANAMA CANAL ZONE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; RURAL POPULATION; SEWAGE; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 11144357600     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020378926399     Document Type: Article

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