Basal area in a New Zealand podocarp-broadleaved forest: Are coniferous and angiosperm components independent?

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 143-147

  Lusk, Christopher H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Additive basal area; Emergent trees; Podocarpaceae; Stratification; Temperate rain forest

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CANOPY; RAINFOREST; STAND STRUCTURE; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATE FOREST;

NEW ZEALAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PODOCARPACEAE;

EID: 0036262952     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2002.9512778     Document Type: Article

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