Recovery and dynamics of a primary tropical dry forest in Jamaica, 10years after human disturbance

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 817-826

  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; Coppice shoot; Forest succession; Mortality; Recruitment; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; COPPICE SHOOT; FOREST SUCCESSION; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT; RESILIENCE;

CHARCOAL; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RECOVERY; TROPICS;

REFORESTATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASAL AREA; CLEARCUTTING; COPPICE; DIAMETER; DISTURBANCE; DRY FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EMISSION INVENTORY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; PIONEER SPECIES; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SHOOT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIMBER HARVESTING;

JAMAICA;

EID: 79958772055     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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