Tropical forest regeneration following land abandonment is driven by primary rainforest distribution in an old pastoral region

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 601-618

  Sloan, Sean ^a   Goosem, Miriam ^a   Laurance, Susan G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Biodiversity; Forest transition; Marginal; Recruitment; Reforestation; Regeneration; Remnant forest; Succession

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PROPAGULE; RAINFOREST; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; SECONDARY FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84957436023     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0267-4     Document Type: Article

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