Local tropical forest restoration strategies affect tree recruitment more strongly than does landscape forest cover

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1091-1099

  Holl, Karen D ^a   Reid, John Leighton ^b   Chaves Fallas, José Miguel ^c,d   Oviedo Brenes, Federico ^c   Zahawi, Rakan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^c Organization for Tropical Studies Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

animal dispersed seeds; applied nucleation; forest recovery; island tree planting; landscape forest cover; natural regeneration; seedling recruitment; succession; tree plantation; tropical reforestation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST COVER; ISLAND; PLANTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TREE PLANTING; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85023619742     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12814     Document Type: Article

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