The role of landscape patterns of habitat types on plant species diversity of a tropical forest in Mexico

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1441-1457

  Hernandez Stefanoni, J Luis ^a,b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Servicio de Información Estadística Agroalimentaria Y Pesquera   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Landscape fragmentation; Landscape patterns; Plant diversity; Shannon diversity index; Simpson diversity index; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSCAPE; PLANT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL FOREST;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; QUINTANA ROO;

EID: 33745459320     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-0598-6     Document Type: Article

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