The response of epiphytes to anthropogenic disturbance of pine-oak forests in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 376-393

  Wolf, Jan H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Disturbance gradient; Forest management; Secondary tropical forests; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; VEGETATION;

EPIPHYTES; VASCULAR PLANT DIVERSITY;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EPIPHYTE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; PLANTS;

CHIAPAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

QUERCUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 20444371007     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.027     Document Type: Article

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