Indicators of restoration success in riparian tropical forests using multiple reference ecosystems

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 238-251

  Suganuma, Marcio S ^a,b   Durigan, Giselda ^a  

^a Forestry Institute of São Paulo State   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Chronosequence; Ecological indicators; Forest structure; Functional guilds; Linear models; Monitoring; Semideciduous tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GUILD STRUCTURE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84928432241     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12168     Document Type: Article

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