Extractive use, management and in situ domestication of a weedy palm, Astrocaryum tucuma, in the central Amazon

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 202, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 161-179

  Schroth, G ^a   Da Mota, M S S ^b   Lopes, R ^c   De Freitas, A F ^d  

^a CP 267   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Amazon; Astrocaryum aculeatum; Astrocaryum tucuma; Extractivism; Fruit quality; In situ domestication; Non timber forest products; Tree improvement

Indexed keywords

TROPICAL FORESTS; WEEDY PALMS;

CROPS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FRUITS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

FORESTRY;

DOMESTICATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRUIT; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ECOLOGY; FARM CROPS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ASTROCARYUM;

EID: 6344226309     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.07.026     Document Type: Article

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