Tree diversity, environmental heterogeneity, and productivity in a Mexican tropical dry forest

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 479-491

  Balvanera, Patricia ^a   Aguirre, Efraín ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Alpha diversity; Chamela Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve; Environmental heterogeneity; Productivity; Species diversity; Species richness; Tropical dry forest; Western Mexico

Indexed keywords

DRY FOREST; HETEROGENEITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33745114938     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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