Disturbance effects on the seed bank of Mexican cloud forest fragments

Biotropica

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-342

  Alvarez Aquino, C ^a,b,d   Williams Linera, G ^a   Newton, A C ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Cloud forest; Diversity; Fragmentation; M xico; Regeneration; Soil seed bank; Tropical montane forest; Veracruz

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; SEED BANK;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; VERACRUZ;

TREMA; TREMA MICRANTHA;

EID: 28444470181     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.00044.x     Document Type: Article

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