Relationships between landscape patterns and species richness of trees, shrubs and vines in a tropical forest

Plant Ecology

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-65

  Hernandez Stefanoni, J Luis ^a,b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Servicio de Información Estadística Agroalimentaria Y Pesquera   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Landscape metrics; Plant diversity; Remote sensing; Spatial autocorrelation; Stratified kriging

Indexed keywords

KRIGING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; QUINTANA ROO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 21144451308     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-004-5776-1     Document Type: Article

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