Experimental native tree seedling establishment for the restoration of a Mexican cloud forest

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 412-418

  Alvarez Aquino, Claudia ^a   Williams Linera, Guadalupe ^a   Newton, Adrian C ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud forest; Fragmentation; Native tree species; Restoration; Seedling establishment; Seedling survival; Tropical montane cloud forest; Veracruz

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

CARPINUS; CARPINUS CAROLINIANA; COCCOIDEA; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; QUERCUS; SYMPLOCOS;

EID: 4644241914     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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