Factors affecting community composition of forest regeneration in deforested, abandoned land in Panama

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3313-3326

  Hooper, Elaine R ^a,b,c   Legendre, Pierre ^b   Condit, Richard ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Abandoned farmland; Anthropogenic grassland; Natural regeneration; Panama; Remnant forest; Saccharum spontaneum; Secondary succession; Seed dispersal; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FIRE; FOREST; REGENERATION; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; LILIOPSIDA; SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; SACCHARUM SPONTANEUM;

EID: 11844304396     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0655     Document Type: Article

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