Litterfall, temperate and tropical dominant trees, and climate in a Mexican lower montane forest

Biotropica

Volumn 28, Issue 4 A, 1996, Pages 649-656

  Williams Linera, Guadalupe ^a   Tolome, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cloud forests; Litterfall; Lower montane forests; Mexico; Microenvironments; Phytogeography; Veracruz

Indexed keywords

CARPINUS CAROLINIANA; CLETHRA MEXICANA; EUGENIA; EUGENIA XALAPENSIS; LIQUIDAMBAR; LIQUIDAMBAR MACROPHYLLA; OCOTEA; OCOTEA PSYCHOTRIOIDES; QUERCUS; TURPINIA; TURPINIA INSIGNIS; UNCLASSIFIED ORGANISMS; BETULACEAE; CLETHRACEAE; FAGACEAE; HAMAMELIDACEAE; LAURACEAE; MYRTACEAE;

CLOUD FOREST; LITTERFALL; MONTANE FOREST;

MEXICO, VERACRUZ STATE;

EID: 0030318120     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389051     Document Type: Article

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