Secondary succession under a slash-and-burn regime in a tropical montane cloud forest: Soil and vegetation characteristics

Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Fragmented Forest Landscapes: The Forests of Montane Mexico and Temperate South America

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 158-180

  Del Castillo, R F ^a   Blanco Macias A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

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