Habitat associations of trees and seedlings in a Bornean rain forest

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 464-478

  Webb, Campbell O ^a,b   Peart, David R ^a  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Habitat partitioning; Maintenance of species diversity; Understorey light level

Indexed keywords

HABITAT; INDONESIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEEDLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0034083526     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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