"Gaps of deciduousness": cyclical gaps in tropical forests "Clareiras de deciduidade": clareiras cíclicas em florestas tropicais

A new concept named "gaps of deciduousness" is introduced for the momentary annual bright places that appear under tropical and subtropical deciduous canopy trees when they are leafless, a cyclical kind of gap totally different from treefall gaps, whose importance in the regeneration ecolo...

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Main Authors: Sergius Gandolfi, Carlos Alfredo Joly, Hermógenes de Freitas Leitão Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2009-04-01
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162009000200020