Vegetation-environment relationships based on a life-forms classification in a semiarid region of Tropical Mexico

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 581-590

  Zavala Hurtado, J A ^a   Valverde, P L ^a   Diaz Solis A ^b   Vite, F ^a   Portilla, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA METROPOLITANA   (Mexico)

^b Jardin Botanico y Vivero de C   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Desert plants; Morphological attributes; Morphological strategies; Multiple discriminant analysis; Ordination; Response curves; Xerophyllous scrub

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY;

ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0030202421     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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