Species wood density and the location of planted seedlings drive early-stage seedling survival during tropical forest restoration

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 1009-1018

  Charles, Lachlan S ^a   Dwyer, John M ^a,b   Smith, Tobias J ^a   Connors, Sophie ^a   Marschner, Petra ^c   Mayfield, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

functional traits; plantings; rainforest; restoration; revegetation; seedling establishment; succession; wood density

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MONOCULTURE; RAINFOREST; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEEDLING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST; WOOD;

AUSTRALIA;

FLINDERSIA BRAYLEYANA;

EID: 85041964105     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13031     Document Type: Article

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