Using plant functional traits to restore Hawaiian rainforest

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 805-809

  Ostertag, Rebecca ^a   Warman, Laura ^b   Cordell, Susan ^b   Vitousek, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Functional restoration; Hawaiian lowland wet forest; Hybrid ecosystem; Invasion; Multivariate trait space; Tropical forest restoration

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HYBRID ZONE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPICAL FOREST;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948717811     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12413     Document Type: Article

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