Using soil amendments and plant functional traits to select native tropical dry forest species for the restoration of degraded Vertisols

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 1019-1028

  Werden, Leland K ^a   Alvarado J , Pedro ^b   Zarges, Sebastian ^c   Calderón M , Erick ^a   Schilling, Erik M ^a   Gutiérrez L , Milena ^b   Powers, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Estación Experimental Forestal Horizontes Área de Conservación Guanacaste   (Costa Rica)

^c Fachhochschule Eberswalde   (Germany)

Author keywords

active restoration; Costa Rica; native species; plant functional traits; seedling establishment; soil amendments; stable isotopes; tropical dry forest; Vertisols; water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

DRY FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; NATIVE SPECIES; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL AMENDMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTISOL; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 85030161245     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12998     Document Type: Article

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