Cloud forest dynamics in the mexican neotropics during the last 1300 years

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1689-1704

  Figueroa Rangel, Blanca L ^a   WIllis, Kathy J ^b,c   Olvera Vargas, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fire; Forest ecology; Logging; Palaeoecology

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLOUD FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SELECTIVE LOGGING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 77953679270     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02024.x     Document Type: Article

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