Composition patterns of Caribbean limestone forests: Are parsimony, classification, and ordination analyses congruent?

Biotropica

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 502-515

  Trejo Torres, Jorge Carlos ^a   Ackerman, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Biogeographical zonation; Caribbean; Classification; Community composition; Floristic affinities; Limestone forests; Ordination; PAE; Parsimony analysis of species assemblages

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLORISTICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; ORDINATION; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

DOMINGOA HAEMATOCHILA;

EID: 0036965296     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00570.x     Document Type: Article

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