Forest recovery in newly abandoned pastures in southern Brazil: Implications for the Atlantic Rain forest resilience

Natureza a Conservacao

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-70

  Cheung, Kwok Chiu ^a   Liebsch, Dieter ^a   Marques, Marcia Cristina Mendes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ecological succession; Natural regeneration; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951717915     PISSN: 16790073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4322/natcon.00801010     Document Type: Article

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