Plant community structure in tropical rain forest fragments of the Western Ghats, India

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 143-160

  Muthuramkumar, S ^a   Ayyappan, N ^a,c   Parthasarathy, N ^a   Mudappa, Divya ^b   Raman, T R Shankar ^b   Selwyn, M Arthur ^a   Pragasan, L Arul ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^c FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

Author keywords

Anamalai hills; Biodiversity hotspot; Disturbance; Endemics; Fragmentation; Lianas; Plant conservation; Tree diversity; Tropical rain forest; Understory plants

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FRAGMENTATION; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WESTERN GHATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644950106     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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