Post-Agricultural Succession in the Neotropics

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Myster, Randall W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33642-8
Table of Contents:
  • Patterns of Living and Non-living Components of Old Fields After Abandonment
  • Trends in Above and Belowground Carbon with Forest Regrowth After Agricultural Abandonment in the Neotropics
  • Post Sugar Cane Succession in Moist Alluvial Sites in Puerto Rico
  • Soil Fungi and Macrofauna in the Neotropics
  • Earthworms and Post-Agricultural Succession
  • Mechanisms and Tolerances that Cause Plant-Plant Replacements Producing Old Field Vegetation Patterns
  • Factors Affecting the Species Richness and Composition of Neotropical Secondary Succession: A Case Study of Abandoned Agricultural Land in Panama
  • Seed Dispersal by Cattle: Natural History and Applications to Neotropical Forest Restoration and Agroforestry
  • The Roles of Disperser Behavior and Physical Habitat Structure in Regeneration of Post-Agricultural Fields
  • Neotropic Post-Dispersal Seed Predation
  • Facilitation Versus Competition in Neotropical Old-Fields: A Case Study After Pinus taeda Cultivation in Brazil
  • Recruitment of Dry Forest Tree Species in Central Brazil Pastures
  • Restoration, Management, and the Future of Post-Agricultural Areas
  • Microbial Biomass in Native Amazonian Ecosystems and its Adaptation to Deforestation and Pasture Introduction and Management
  • Management for Sustainability and Restoration of Degraded Pastures in the Neotropics
  • Conclusions, Synthesis, and Future Directions.