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| | MANAGING SECONDARY FORESTS IN LA AMISTAD'S BUFFER ZONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The study of secondary forests at Los Santos forms part of Maarten Kappelle's doctoral dissertation2 at the University of Amsterdam, which contributed to the IUBS-MAB Tropical Mountain Environment programme within the Decade of the Tropics. |
 | | The study of the ecology of the montane Quercus forests of the Cordillera de Talamanca includes such aspects as biogeography, altitudinal zonation, phytosociology, plant diversity, secondary succession, recovery after clearing, land use and environmental conservation. |
 | | Enquiries to M. Kappelle, Hugo de Vries Laboratory, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam (Netherlands). |
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