Composition, structure, and distribution of woody vegetation on the Cache River floodplain, Arkansas

Wetlands

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 264-278

  Smith, R Daniel ^a  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottomland hardwoods; Canonical correspondence analysis; Classification; Correspondence analysis; Cypress tupelo; Floodplains; Forested wetlands; Multivariate analysis; Species environment relationships; Structural characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008830760     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03161318     Document Type: Article

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