Atlantic rain forest recovery: Successional drivers of floristic and structural patterns of secondary forest in Southern Brazil

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1056-1068

  Zanini, K J ^a   Bergamin, R S ^a   Machado, R E ^a   Pillar, V D ^a   Muller S C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Causal models; Chronosequences; Environmental and spatial variables; Regeneration patterns; Subtropics

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLORISTICS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RAINFOREST; SECONDARY FOREST; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUCCESSION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84902358328     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12162     Document Type: Article

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