Forest canopy perforation in time and space in Amazonian Ecuador

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 21, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 285-291

  Salvador Van Eysenrode, David ^a   Bogaert, Jan ^a   Van Hecke, Piet ^a   Impens, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Circular statistics; Dispersion; Monte Carlo test; Nearest neighbour; Random pixel clusters; Terra firme rainforests

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; GAP DYNAMICS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR;

EID: 0034536643     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1146-609X(00)01086-9     Document Type: Article

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