Seed limitation during early forest succession in a rural landscape on Chiloé Island, Chile: Implications for temperate forest restoration

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1103-1112

  Bustamante Sánchez, Marcela A ^a   Armesto, Juan J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bird perches; Ecological filters; Forest restoration; Frugivores; Land use change; Latin America; Regeneration dynamics; Southern temperate rain forest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FACILITATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRUGIVORY; GERMINATION; GROWING SEASON; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RURAL AREA; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUBLAND; SUCCESSION;

CHILE; CHILOE ISLAND; LATIN AMERICA; LOS LAGOS;

AVES;

EID: 84866544312     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02179.x     Document Type: Article

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