Tree seedling recruitment in Amazon secondary forest: Importance of topography and gap micro-site conditions

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 287, Issue , 2013, Pages 140-146

  Bentos, Tony Vizcarra ^a   Nascimento, Henrique E M ^a   Williamson, G Bruce ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial gaps; Litter removal; Seed bank; Soil disturbance; Vismia spp

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIA; ARTIFICIAL GAPS; CANOPY GAPS; MANAGEMENT TOOL; METHODOLOGICAL TOOLS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SECONDARY FORESTS; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING GROWTH; SEEDLING MORTALITY; SOIL DISTURBANCES; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL SEED BANK; SOIL TREATMENTS; TOPOGRAPHIC POSITIONS; TREE SEEDLINGS; TREE SPECIES; VISMIA SPP; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AGRICULTURE; REFORESTATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

SOILS;

ABANDONED LAND; CANOPY GAP; DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; LAND COVER; LITTER; MORTALITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SECONDARY FOREST; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SUCCESSION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AGRICULTURE; BRAZIL; FOREST LITTER; MORTALITY; SEEDS; SOIL;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

VISMIA;

EID: 84867600335     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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