Floristic and structural comparisons among palm communities in primary and secondary forest fragments of the Raimundo Irineu Serra Environmental Protection Area - Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil;Comparações florísticas e estruturais entre comunidades de palmeiras em fragmentos de floresta primária e secundária da Área de Proteção Ambiental Raimundo Irineu Serra - Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil

Acta Amazonica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 657-665

  de Carvalho, Anelena Lima ^a   Ferreira, Evandro José Linhares ^a   Lima, Joanna Marie Tucker ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b Universidade da Flórida   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arecaceae; Floristic composition; Forest fragments; Population structure; Secondary forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899930460     PISSN: 00445967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0044-59672010000400004     Document Type: Article

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