Diversity of the understory vascular vegetation in 40 year-old and old-growth forest stands on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 773-780

  Qian, Hong ^a   Klinka, Karel ^a   Sivak, Bela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Habitat heterogeneity diversity; Similarity; Species richness; Stand development; Succession

Indexed keywords

OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 0031417403     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237021     Document Type: Article

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