Eighty years of succession in a noncommercial plantation on Hawai'i Island: Are native species returning?

Pacific Science

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Mascaro, Joseph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE; SUCCESSION;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA; PSYCHOTRIA; PSYCHOTRIA HAWAIIENSIS; PSYDRAX;

EID: 78650887187     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: 15346188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/65.1.001     Document Type: Article

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