Modified Whittaker plots as an assessment and monitoring tool for vegetation in a lowland tropical rainforest

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-41

  Campbell, Patrick ^a   Comiskey, James ^a   Alonso, Alfonso ^a   Dallmeier, Francisco ^a   Nuñez, Percy ^b   Beltran, Hamilton ^c   Baldeon, Severo ^c   Nauray, William ^b   De La Colina, Rafael ^b   Acurio, Lucero ^b   Udvardy, Shana ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

Author keywords

Assessment; Modified Whittaker plots; Monitoring; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

RESOURCE EXPLOITATION;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RAINFOREST;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST STRUCTURE; HERB; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PLOTS AND CURVES; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RARITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VEGETATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; PERU; PLANT; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PERU; PLANTS; RESEARCH; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0036016059     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015264720284     Document Type: Article

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