Conservation value of remnant forest patches: Tree composition, spatial patterns, and recruitment in the Ottoville Lowland Forest, American Samoa

Pacific Science

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 319-332

  Seamon, Joshua O ^a   Mann, Sheri S ^b,c   Steele, Orlo C ^b,d   Utzurrum, Ruth C B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (American Samoa)

^b American Samoa Community College   (American Samoa)

^c Hawaii Division Forestry and Wildlife   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VIABILITY;

AMERICAN SAMOA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA;

POMETIA;

EID: 33745648693     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/psc.2006.0018     Document Type: Article

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