Dispersal limits natural recruitment of African mahoganies

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-72

  Makana, Jean Remy ^a,b   Thomas, Sean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Ctr Form Rech Conserv Forestiere   (Congo)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECRUITMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ENTANDROPHRAGMA; KHAYA; KHAYA ANTHOTHECA; SWIETENIA;

EID: 3042617668     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13084.x     Document Type: Article

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