Vegetation recovery on a gas-pipeline track along an altitudinal gradient in the Argentinean Yungas forests

Ecologia Austral

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-178

  Malizia, Agustina ^a   Chacoff, Natacha P ^a   Grau, Hétor R ^a   Brown, Alejandro D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Environmental impact; Life forms; Revegetation; Subtropical montane forest

Indexed keywords

RECOVERY;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

POACEAE;

EID: 17744374255     PISSN: 03275477     EISSN: 1667782X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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