Natural establishment of indigenous trees under planted nuclei: A study from a clear-felled pine plantation in an afrotropical rain forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 345, Issue , 2015, Pages 21-28

  Piiroinen, T ^a   Nyeko, P ^b   Roininen, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Applied nucleation; Logged plantation; Natural succession; Plant colonization; Secondary forest; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FORESTRY; NUCLEATION; REFORESTATION; VEGETATION;

LOGGED PLANTATION; NATURAL SUCCESSION; PLANT COLONIZATION; SECONDARY FORESTS; TROPICAL FOREST;

SEED;

AFROTROPICAL REGION; CLEARCUTTING; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; GROWTH RATE; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; SECONDARY FOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

KIBALE NATIONAL PARK; UGANDA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84924280073     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.02.027     Document Type: Article

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