Demographic Effects of Harvesting Epiphytic Bromeliads and an Alternative Approach to Collection

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 797-807

  Mondragón Chaparro, Demetria ^a   Ticktin, Tamara ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Life table response experiment; Matrix models; Mexico; Nontimber forest products; Sustainable harvest; Tillandsia macdougallii; Tillandsia violaceae

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; COMMERCIALIZATION; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIPHYTE; FOREST FLOOR; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; LIFE TABLE; MONOCOTYLEDON; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BROMELIACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BROMELIACEAE; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; OAXACA;

TILLANDSIA; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 79960564760     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01691.x     Document Type: Article

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