Isolated Trees and Grass Removal Improve Performance of Transplanted Trema micrantha (L.) Blume (Ulmaceae) Saplings in Tropical Pastures

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 24-34

  García Orth, Ximena ^a   Martínez Ramos, Miguel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Grass competition; Mexico; Native species; Rainforest restoration; Sapling performance

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GRASS; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT; RAINFOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAPLING; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

BOS; POACEAE; TREMA; TREMA MICRANTHA; ULMACEAE;

EID: 78651247082     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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