Evaluating the success of direct seeding for tropical forest restoration over ten years

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 438, Issue , 2019, Pages 224-232

  Freitas, Marina Guimarães ^a,b   Rodrigues, Silvia Barbosa ^a,b   Campos Filho, Eduardo Malta ^c   do Carmo, Guilherme Henrique Pompiano ^c   da Veiga, Junior Micolino ^c   Junqueira, Rodrigo Gravina Prates ^c   Vieira, Daniel Luis Mascia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Socioambiental ISA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomass; Chronosequence; Ecological restoration; Seedlings; Succession; Tree density

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; PHOSPHORUS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; TROPICS;

CHRONOSEQUENCES; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; SEEDLINGS; SUCCESSION; TREE DENSITY;

SEED;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGROWTH; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; TREE PLANTING; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; PHOSPHORUS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION; TROPICS;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO; XINGU BASIN;

EID: 85062085465     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.02.024     Document Type: Article

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