Patterns of species richness at varying scales in western Kenya: Planning for agroecosystem diversification

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3235-3249

  Kindt, R ^a   Van Damme, P ^b   Simons, A J ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agroecosystem; Agroforestry; Diversification; Domestication; Landscape; Species accumulation curves; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ETHNOBOTANY; LANDSCAPE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33750682688     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-0311-9     Document Type: Article

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