Coenostate descriptors and spatial dependence in vegetation - Derived variables in monitoring forest dynamics and assembly rules

Community Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-114

  Campetella, G ^a   Canullo, R ^a   Bartha, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Competitive dominance; Disturbance; Diversity; Dynamic tendencies; Forest herb layer; Information theory; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; FOREST DYNAMICS; MONITORING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3142679424     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.5.2004.1.10     Document Type: Article

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