Vegetation response to removal of non-native feral pigs from Hawaiian tropical montane wet forest

Biological Invasions

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 125-140

  Cole, Rebecca J ^a,b   Litton, Creighton M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Non native invasive ungulates; Restoration; Sus scrofa; Tropical montane wet forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BRYOPHYTE; FOREST CANOPY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TRAMPLING; TROPICAL FOREST; UNGULATE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84891142430     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0508-x     Document Type: Article

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