Effects of small rodent and large mammal exclusion on seedling recruitment in Costa Rica

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 196-202

  DeMattia, Elizabeth A ^a,d   Rathcke, Beverly J ^a   Curran, Lisa M ^b   Aguilar, Reinaldo ^c   Vargas, Orlando ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^d School for Field Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Corcovado National Park; Exclosures; Microsite variation; Perebea hispidula; Pouteria sp.; Trophis racemosa; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MAMMAL; RECRUITMENT; SEED PREDATION;

HISPIDULA; MAMMALIA; PEREBEA; POUTERIA; RODENTIA; TROPHIS RACEMOSA;

EID: 33644935681     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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