Border and ecotone detection by vegetation composition along forest-savanna transects in Ivory Coast

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 301-310

  Hennenberg, Klaus J ^a   Goetze, Dethardt ^a   Kouamé, Lucien ^b   Orthmann, Bettina ^a   Porembski, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b Comoé Ecological Research Station ^*  (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Africa; Boundary; Core area; Edge depth; Forest edge effect; Forest island; Split moving window; Tropics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOTONE; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; COMOE NATIONAL PARK; COTE D'IVOIRE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

ANOGEISSUS LEIOCARPUS; POACEAE;

EID: 24044452578     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2005.tb02368.x     Document Type: Article

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