Can intensive management accelerate the restoration of Brazil's Atlantic forests?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1808-1814

  Campoe, Otávio Camargo ^a   Stape, José Luiz ^b   Mendes, João Carlos Teixeira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Degraded pasture; Leaf area index; Light use efficiency; Reforestation; Restoration

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANNUAL GROWTH; ATLANTIC FOREST; EUCALYPTUS PLANTATIONS; FOREST CANOPIES; INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NITROGEN CONTENT; PER UNIT; SEEDLING SURVIVAL; STEM BIOMASS; STEMWOODS; SURVIVAL AND GROWTH;

CULTIVATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; REVEGETATION; WEED CONTROL;

CONSERVATION;

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; C4 PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; PASTURE; RAINFOREST; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SURVIVAL; URBANIZATION; WEED CONTROL;

CONSERVATION; CULTIVATION; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; WEED CONTROL;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EUCALYPTUS; POACEAE;

EID: 77949491101     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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