Woody species regeneration in atlantic forest restoration sites depends on surrounding landscape

Natureza a Conservacao

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-144

  Pereira, Lya Carolina Da Silva Mariano ^a   De Oliveira, Carolina de Cássia Cainelli ^a   Torezan, José Marcelo Domingues ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ecological restoration; Forest fragmentation; Secondary succession; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901680018     PISSN: 16790073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4322/natcon.2013.022     Document Type: Article

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