Recovery of floristic diversity and basal area in natural forest regeneration and planted plots in a Costa Rican wet forest

Biotropica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 798-808

  Gilman, Alex C ^a   Letcher, Susan G ^b   Fincher, Rita M ^c   Perez, Ashley I ^b   Madell, Tyler W ^b   Finkelstein, Alex L ^b   Corrales Araya, Felix ^d  

^a Universidad EARTH   (Costa Rica)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d San Ramón de La Virgen   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

basal area; forest restoration; natural regeneration; plantation; recovery of biodiversity; tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT RESTORATION; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; REGENERATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84995874859     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12361     Document Type: Article

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