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Regeneration potential in South African forest fragments: extinction debt paid off or hampered by contemporary matrix modification?

2015-04-01

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Deforestation generates forest fragments within modified matrices with frequently detrimental outcomes for species persistence. In historically fragmented forests, however, species have evolved under fragmented conditions and might be more resistant to matrix modification. We examined the effect of contemporary matrix modification on forest regeneration potential in historically fragmented scarp-forest fragments i...

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Literature Corpus work: 4c964487-a4e0-5347-8803-7b177a7f1a2e
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-015-0457-9

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