Resilience of southwestern Amazon forests to anthropogenic edge effects

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1698-1710

  Phillips, Oliver L ^a   Rose, Sam ^a,c   Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo ^b,d   Vargas, Percy Núñez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^c DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d Herbario Selva Central Oxapampa HOXA de la estación Biológica del Jardín Botánico de Missouri   (Peru)

Author keywords

Conservation value; Diversity; Forest biomass; Mortality; Peru

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODY PLANT;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845473660     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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