Resilience of secondary forest regrowth after slash-and-burn agriculture in central Amazonia

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 519-527

  Gehring, Christoph ^a,c   Denich, Manfred ^b   Vlek, Paul L G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Curso de Mestrado em Agroecologia Laboratório de Solos   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; REGROWTH; SUCCESSION;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23944503358     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467405002543     Document Type: Article

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