Structure, composition and species diversity in an altitude-substrate matrix of rain forest tree communities on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

Plant Ecology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-157

  Aiba, Shin Ichiro ^a,b   Kitayama, Kanehiro ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental matrix; Forest structure; Tree species diversity; Tropical rain forest; Ultrabasic vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MONTANE FOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 0032915756     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009710618040     Document Type: Article

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