Traditional forest management has limited impact on plant diversity and composition in a tropical seasonal rainforest in SW China

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1832-1840

  Mo, Xiao Xue ^a,b   Zhu, Hua ^a   Zhang, Yong Jiang ^a,b,c   Ferry Slik, J W ^a   Liu, Jing Xin ^d  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Slash and burn; Succession; Understorey planting; Xishuangbanna

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DIVERSITY INDEX; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MONOCULTURE; NATURE RESERVE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RAINFOREST; RED LIST; REGENERATION; RUBBER; SECONDARY FOREST; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; UNDERSTORY; VULNERABILITY;

CHINA; NABANHE NATURE RESERVE; YUNNAN;

EID: 79957646360     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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