Rain forest structure at forest-pasture edges in northeastern Costa Rica

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 578-584

  Schedlbauer, Jessica L ^a,b   Finegan, Bryan ^b   Kavanagh, Kathleen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Edge effects; Forest fragmentation; Hemispherical photography; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BASAL AREA; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST EDGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTURE; PHOTOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; SARAPIQUI;

EID: 34548256261     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00312.x     Document Type: Article

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