Life-form spectra of Brazilian cerrado sites

Flora

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 452-460

  Batalha, Marco Antônio ^a   Martins, Fernando Roberto ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biological spectrum; Cerrado; Detrended correspondence analysis; Life form; Raunkiaer; Savanna

Indexed keywords

CERRADO; GROWTH FORM; PLANT COMMUNITY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0036445165     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0367-2530-00062     Document Type: Article

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