A generic plant functional attribute set and grammar for dynamic vegetation description and analysis

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 775-783

  Gillison, A N ^a   Carpenter, G ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Natural resource survey; Rapid biodiversity and habitat assessment; Semantic rule set; Universal descriptors

Indexed keywords

PLANT FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTE; VEGETATION DESCRIPTION;

EID: 0031414820     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00157.x     Document Type: Article

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