Drought mortality of tree seedlings in an eroded tropical pasture

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 287-295

  Martinez Garza C ^a   Tobon, W ^b   Campo, J ^b   Howe, H F ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Eroded pastures; Experimental restoration; Later successional tropical trees; Los Tuxtlas; Mexico; Natural regeneration; Natural succession; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ERODED PASTURES; LOS TUXTLAS; ME-XICO; NATURAL REGENERATION; NATURAL SUCCESSION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICAL TREE;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; DROUGHT; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; SOILS; TROPICS;

SEED;

DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GERMINATION; HILLSLOPE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MORTALITY; PASTURE; RAINFOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SOIL DEPTH; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL REGION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ;

BOS;

EID: 84878923590     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.1127     Document Type: Article

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