Long-term environmental change in tropical forests: Increasing tree turnover

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-248

  Phillips, Oliver L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biodiversity; change; forest; permanent tree plots; trees; tropical; turnover

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; TROPICS;

EID: 0030453398     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0376892900038856     Document Type: Article

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