Species richness and stand stability in conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2787-2799

  DeClerck, Fabrice A J ^a,c   Barbour, Michael G ^a   Sawyer, John O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coefficient of variation; Compensatory growth; Conifers; Ecosystem function; Portfolio effect; Resilience; Resistance; Sierra Nevada, California, USA; Species diversity; Statistical averaging; Variance

Indexed keywords

RAIN; SNOW;

ABUNDANCE; COMPLEXITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SNOW; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ABIES MAGNIFICA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CONIUM; PINUS CONTORTA; TSUGA MERTENSIANA;

EID: 33845433182     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2787:SRASSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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