Intensive tree planting facilitates tropical forest biodiversity and biomass accumulation in Kibale National Park, Uganda

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 703-709

  Omeja, Patrick A ^a   Chapman, Colin A ^a,b,c   Obua, Joseph ^a   Lwanga, Jeremiah S ^a   Jacob, Aerin L ^d   Wanyama, Frederick ^e   Mugenyi, Richard ^e  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UGANDA WILDLIFE AUTHORITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Acanthus pubescens; Anthropogenic disturbance; Biomass accumulation; Carbon offset; Lantana camara; Regeneration; Restoration; Tree planting

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; LANTANA CAMARA; PUBESCENS; REGENERATION; TREE PLANTINGS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; PARKS; RESTORATION; TROPICS;

REFORESTATION;

ALLOMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; MAMMAL; PLANTATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; TROPICAL FOREST;

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK; UGANDA; WESTERN PROVINCE [UGANDA];

ACANTHUS PUBESCENS; ANIMALIA; AVES; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 78651249944     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.11.029     Document Type: Article

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