Understorey plant species richness and composition in metropolitan forest archipelagos: Effects of forest size, adjacent land use and distance to the edge

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-62

  Guirado, M ^a   Pino, J ^a,b   Roda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adjacent land use; Distance to the forest edge; Forest fragmentation; Forest size; Mediterranean; Metropolitan areas; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST EDGE; LAND USE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33644898865     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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