Restoring rainforest fragments: Survival of mixed-native species seedlings under contrasting site conditions in the Western Ghats, India

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 137-147

  Raman, T R Shankar ^a   Mudappa, Divya ^a   Kapoor, Vena ^a  

^a NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Anamalai hills; Eucalyptus; Fragmentation; Lantana camara; Maesopsis; Plantations; Tropical wet evergreen forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PIONEER SPECIES; PLANTATION; RAINFOREST; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

ANAIMALAI HILLS; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU; WESTERN GHATS;

ANIMALIA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GRANDIS; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA; MAESOPSIS; MAESOPSIS EMINII;

EID: 58149528338     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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