Landscape-scale variation in forest structure and biomass in a tropical rain forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 137, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 185-198

  Clark, D B ^a,b   Clark, D A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b La Selva Biological Station   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Carbon stocks; Edaphic effects; Forest mensuration; Landscape ecology; Mesoscale landscapes; Soils; Topographic effects; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034668238     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00327-8     Document Type: Article

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