Patterns in woody species diversity, richness and partitioning of diversity in forest communities of tropical deciduous forest biome

Ecography

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-86

  Saha, Sonali ^a,b  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST; WOODY PLANT;

INDIA;

EID: 0038625117     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2003.03411.x     Document Type: Article

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