Landscape scale evaluation of understory light and canopy structure : methods and application in a neotropical lowland rain forest

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Canadian Journal of Forest Research

• Publication date

  1996-05-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1139/X26-084
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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