Assessing the recovery of a long-lived herb following logging: Trillium ovatum across a 424-year chronosequence

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 210, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 107-116

  Kahmen, Ansgar ^a,c   Jules, Erik S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Disturbance; Fragmentation; Secondary succession; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

LOGGING (FORESTRY); POPULATION STATISTICS; SEED;

CHRONOSEQUENCES; DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS; POPULATION SIZE; RECOVERY RATES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHRONOSEQUENCE; DISTURBANCE; LOGGING (TIMBER); SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEED DISPERSAL;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; HERBS; LOGGING; SEEDS;

LILIACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRILLIUM; TRILLIUM OVATUM;

EID: 17844370540     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.02.018     Document Type: Article

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