Colonization of gaps produced by death of bamboo clumps in a semideciduous mesophytic forest in south-eastern Brazil

Plant Ecology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-131

  Martins, Sebastião Venâncio ^a   Colletti Jr , Renato ^b   Rodrigues, Ricardo Ribeiro ^b   Gandolfi, Sérgius ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bamboo; Brazil; Canopy gaps; Forest succession; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO; CANOPY GAP; COLONIZATION; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

CROTON; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; GALIPEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MYRTACEAE; POLYGALA; POLYGALA KLOTZSCHII; POLYGALACEAE; PSYCHOTRIA; RUBIACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 3543008421     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000026030.93687.c4     Document Type: Article

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