Do we need livestock grazing to promote Polylepis australis tree recruitment in the Central Argentinean Mountains?

Ecological Research

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1075-1081

  Zimmermann, Heike ^a   Renison, Daniel ^b   Leyer, Ilona ^c   Hensen, Isabell ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

High altitude forests; Livestock; Logistic regression; South America; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DICOTYLEDON; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING; GRAZING PRESSURE; LIVESTOCK; MONTANE FOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA;

AVES; POLYLEPIS; POLYLEPIS AUSTRALIS; ROSACEAE;

EID: 77951091948     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-009-0585-6     Document Type: Article

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