Applying indigenous knowledge to the restoration of degraded tropical rain forest clearings dominated by bracken fern

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 322-329

  Douterlungne, David ^a   Levy Tacher, Samuel I ^a   Golicher, Duncan J ^a   Dañobeytia, Francisco Román ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD   (Mexico)

^b Colonia Pensil Norte Miguel Hidalgo ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Ochroma pyramidale; Pteridium aquilinum; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

FERN; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; RAINFOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TRANSPLANTATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CHIAPAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

FILICOPHYTA; OCHROMA PYRAMIDALE; PTERIDIUM; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77953784245     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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