Effects of river level fluctuation on plant species richness, diversity, and distribution in a floodplain forest in Central Amazonia

Oecologia

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 582-587

  Ferreira, Leandro Valle ^a,c   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Fundo Mundial para a Natureza (WWF)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Diversity; Flooding period; Landscape heterogeneity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

RIPARIAN FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER LEVEL;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0032873334     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050893     Document Type: Article

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