Classification of vegetational diversity in managed boreal forests in eastern Finland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-28

  Pitkänen, Sari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alph diversity; Beta diversity; Classification; Discriminant analysis; Ordination; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

FINLAND;

EID: 0343920756     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009877403926     Document Type: Article

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