Intra and inter-annual variation in seed rain in a secondary dry tropical forest excluded from chronic disturbance

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2207-2218

  Martinez Garza, Cristina ^a   Osorio Beristain, Marcela ^a   Valenzuela Galván, David ^a   Nicolás Medina, Alondra ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Early successional trees; Late successional trees; Seed limitation

Indexed keywords

DRY FORESTS; DRY SEASONS; DRY TROPICAL FORESTS; EARLY-SUCCESSIONAL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LATE-SUCCESSIONAL TREES; LIVESTOCK GRAZING; ME-XICO; RUBIACEAE; SECONDARY FORESTS; SEED RAIN; SEED SOURCE; STANDING TREE; VEGETATION RECOVERY; WOODY SPECIES;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK; FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RAIN; SECONDARY RECOVERY;

SEED;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANT; BIRD; DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUELWOOD; GRAZING; PHENOLOGY; SECONDARY FOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED RAIN; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

ANIMALIA; AVES; FORMICIDAE; HAMELIA; HAMELIA PATENS; HELIOCARPUS; MALVACEAE; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 80054976628     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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