Biodiversity inventory of trees in a large-scale permanent plot of tropical evergreen forest at Varagalaiar, Anamalais, Western Ghats, India

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1533-1554

  Ayyappan, N ^a   Parthasarathy, N ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Permanent plot; Species hierarchy; Stand structure; Tree diversity; Tropical forest; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CENSUS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; TROPICAL FOREST;

INDIA;

DIPTEROCARPACEAE; DIPTEROCARPUS; DIPTEROCARPUS INDICUS; DRYPETES; DRYPETES LONGIFOLIA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; POECILONEURON; POECILONEURON INDICUM; REINWARDTIODENDRON; REINWARDTIODENDRON ANAMALLAYANUM; VATERIA INDICA;

EID: 0032805764     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008940803073     Document Type: Article

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