Regeneration of seasonal deciduous forest tree species in long-used pastures in central Brazil

Biotropica

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 655-659

  Sampaio, Alexandre B ^a,d   Holl, Karen D ^b   Scariot, Aldicir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

^d SCEN Trecho 2   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Braquiaria decumbens; Cerrado; Coppice shoot; Dry forest; Paran River Basin; Resilience; Resprout; Root sucker

Indexed keywords

COPPICE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DRY FOREST; PASTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BRAZIL; CERRADO; PARANA BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34548265117     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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