Alternatives for reintroducing a rare ecotone species: Manually thinned forest edge versus restored habitat remnant

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 668-677

  Possley, Jennifer ^a   Maschinski, Joyce ^a   Rodriguez, Cristina ^b   Dozier, Jane Griffin ^b  

^a Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

^b Miami Dade County   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecotone; Fire suppression; Fragmentation; Hardwood hammock; Lantana canescens; Light; Pine rockland; Reintroduction; Succession

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOTONE; FOREST EDGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; REINTRODUCTION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUCCESSION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MIAMI-DADE COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LANTANA; LANTANA CANESCENS;

EID: 70349506967     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00395.x     Document Type: Article

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