Forest restoration in a fog oasis: evidence indicates need for cultural awareness in constructing the reference.

<h4>Background</h4>In the Peruvian Coastal Desert, an archipelago of fog oases, locally called lomas, are centers of biodiversity and of past human activity. Fog interception by a tree canopy, dominated by the legume tree tara (Caesalpinia spinosa), enables the occurrence in the Atiquipa...

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Main Authors: Luís Balaguer, Rosa Arroyo-García, Percy Jiménez, María Dolores Jiménez, Luís Villegas, Irene Cordero, Rafael Rubio de Casas, Raúl Fernández-Delgado, María Eugenia Ron, Esteban Manrique, Pablo Vargas, Emilio Cano, José J Pueyo, James Aronson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21829680/?tool=EBI