Early successional pattern and process after sugarcane, banana, and pasture cultivation in Ecuador

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-110

  Myster, Randall W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Musasp; Neotropics; Old fields; Saccharum officinarum; Setaria sphacelata

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; FRUIT; PASTURE; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; SUGAR CANE; SURVIVAL;

ECUADOR; MAQUIPUCUNA RESERVE; PICHINCHA; SOUTH AMERICA;

FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI; MUSA SP.; SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM; SETARIA (PLANT); SETARIA SPHACELATA;

EID: 34247401294     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288250709509707     Document Type: Article

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