The relationship between canopy gaps and topography in a western Ecuadorian rain forest

Biotropica

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 653-661

  Gale, Neil ^a,b  

^a SYSTEMATIC A S   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Canopy gaps; Ecuador; Topography; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RAINFOREST; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0034508890     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2000.tb00512.x     Document Type: Article

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