The Ecological Consequences of Socioeconomic and Land-Use Changes in Postagriculture Puerto Rico
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- 1 January 2003
- journal article
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 53 (12) , 1159-1168
- https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[1159:tecosa]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Contrary to the general trend in the tropics, forests have recovered in Puerto Rico from less than 10% of the landscape in the late 1940s to more thaKeywords
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