Variations in tree community composition and structure in a fragment of tropical semideciduous forest in southeastern Brazil related to different human disturbance histories

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 198, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 319-339

  Toniato, Maria Teresa Zugliani ^a   De Oliveira Filho, Ary T ^b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Dispersal guilds; Forest disturbance; Forest fragments; Forest regeneration; Regeneration guilds; Tropical semideciduous forest

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CROPS; ECOLOGY; EROSION; LEACHING; MINERALS; PESTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SAMPLING; SOILS; TEXTURES; VEGETATION;

DISPERSAL GUILDS; FLORISTIC COMPOSITION; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; PHYSIOGNOMIC STRUCTURES;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; REGENERATION;

ECOLOGY; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY; SOIL;

BAURU; BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 3543082196     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.05.029     Document Type: Article

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