Coppice shoot dynamics in a tropical dry forest after human disturbance

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-268

  Lévesque, Mathieu ^a   McLaren, Kurt P ^b   McDonald, Morag A ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Caribbean; forest recovery; Jamaica; regeneration; resilience; sprouting; stumps; tree cutting

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COPPICE; DIAMETER; DRY FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HEIGHT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PERSISTENCE; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SHOOT; SHOOT GROWTH; TROPICAL FOREST;

JAMAICA;

EID: 79958769543     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467410000805     Document Type: Article

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