Vegetation Recovery 16 Years after Feral Pig Removal from a Wet Hawaiian Forest

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 463-471

  Cole, Rebecca J ^a   Litton, Creighton M ^a   Koontz, Michael J ^a   Loh, Rhonda K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Feral ungulates; Nonnative invasive species; Psidium cattleianum; Sus scrofa; Tropical montane wet forest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EPIPHYTE; FERAL ORGANISM; FERN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; MONTANE FOREST; NATIVE SPECIES; PIG; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION REGULATION; REGENERATION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODY PLANT;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

FILICOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; PSIDIUM; PSIDIUM CATTLEIANUM; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84863463236     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00841.x     Document Type: Article

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