Canopy seed banks as time capsules of biodiversity in pasture-remnant tree crowns

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1117-1126

  Nadkarni, Nalini M ^a   Haber, Willam A ^b  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Monteverde ^*  (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Monteverde; Pasture tree; Regeneration foci; Relict tree; Remnant tree; Seed bank; Tropical cloud forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLOUD FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GERMINATION; PASTURE; PROPAGULE; REGENERATION; RELICT COMMUNITY; SEED BANK; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; PLANT LEAVES; SEEDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; MONTEVERDE; PUNTARENAS;

ANIMALIA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 70349208655     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01235.x     Document Type: Article

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