Forest classification in an Amazonian rainforest landscape using pteridophytes as indicator species

Ecography

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 689-700

  Salovaara, Kati J ^a   Cárdenas, Glenda G ^b   Tuomisto, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Urban Virgen de Loreto J 20   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PTERIDOPHYTE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES INVENTORY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

AMAZONIA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

FILICOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 11144312376     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03958.x     Document Type: Article

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