Amazon Rain Forest Succession: Stochasticity or Land-Use Legacy?

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 849-861

  Mesquita, Rita De Cássia Guimarães ^a,b   Massoca, Paulo Eduardo Dos Santos ^a,b   Jakovac, Catarina Conte ^a,b   Bentos, Tony Vizcarra ^a,b   Williamson, G Bruce ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

alternative pathways; forest regeneration; land use history; secondary succession; stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942237287     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv108     Document Type: Article

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