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Forests
Known as:
Forested Areas
, Forestland
, Forestlands
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An ecosystem dominated by trees and other woody vegetation.
National Institutes of Health
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Trees (plant)
Wood material
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
People and forests : communities, institutions, and governance
C. Gibson
,
M. McKean
,
E. Ostrom
2000
Corpus ID: 127703623
Unplanned deforestation, which is occurring at unsustainable rates in many parts of the world, can cause significant hardships…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Self-governance and forest resources
E. Ostrom
1999
Corpus ID: 10368351
Forest resources share attributes with many other resource systems that make difficult their governance and management in a…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A comparison of the performance of nine soil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments
Pete Smith
,
Jo U. Smith
,
+17 authors
A. Whitmore
1997
Corpus ID: 34703585
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Insects in fragmented forests: a functional approach.
R. Didham
,
R. Didham
,
J. Ghazoul
,
N. Stork
,
A. J. Davis
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
1996
Corpus ID: 24367448
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Testing the Adaptive Plasticity Hypothesis: Density-Dependent Selection on Manipulated Stem Length in Impatiens capensis
S. A. Dudley
,
J. Schmitt
American Naturalist
1996
Corpus ID: 55303653
In plants, stem elongation at high density in response to vegetation shade is hypothesized to be an example of adaptive…
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Tree species richness of upper Amazonian forests.
A. Gentry
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1988
Corpus ID: 40445427
Upper Amazonian data for tree species richness in 1-hectare plots are reported. All plants >/=10 cm diameter were censused and…
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Autogenic succession in a subtropical savanna: conversion of grassland to thorn woodland
S. Archer
,
C. Scifres
,
C. R. Bassham
,
R. C. Maggio
1988
Corpus ID: 28954744
Dense thorn woodlands occupy what are thought to have been grasslands and savannas prior to settlement of the Rio Grande Plains…
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Response of northern forests to CO2-induced climate change
J. Pastor
,
W. Post
Nature
1988
Corpus ID: 4312432
Climate changes resulting from increases in atmospheric CO2 are expected to alter forest productivity and species distributions…
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Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
13C Content of human collagen as a measure of prehistoric diet in woodland North America
N. J. Merwe
,
J. Vogel
Nature
1978
Corpus ID: 4309016
PLANTS with the C4 dicarboxylic acid pathway of photosynthesis have markedly higher 13C/12C ratios than plants with the C3 or…
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Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
A Physiognomic Classification of Australian Rain Forests
B. Webb
1959
Corpus ID: 87194512
Outside Australia, a valuable basis for the classification of tropical vegetation was provided recently by Beard (1944, 1946) and…
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