Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-77

  Jakovac, Catarina C ^a,b   Peña Claros, Marielos ^a   Kuyper, Thomas W ^a   Bongers, Frans ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Diversity; Fire; Landscape; Legacies; Resprout; Secondary succession; Soil; Swidden agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921909952     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12298     Document Type: Article

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