Recruitment of dry forest tree species in Central Brazil pastures

Post-Agricultural Succession in the Neotropics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 231-244

  Scariot, Aldicir ^a   Vieira, Daniel L M ^b   Sampaio, Alexandre B ^c   Guarino, Ernestino ^a   Sevilha, Anderson ^a  

^a EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c IBAMA   (Brazil)

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EID: 46049088409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-33642-8_11     Document Type: Chapter

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