Community characteristics of a climax subtropical humid forest of Meghalaya and population structure of ten important tree species

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-251

  Mishra, B P ^a   Tripathi, O P ^a   Laloo, R C ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Community characteristics; Diversity; Dominance distribution; Population structure; Sacred grove; Species richness; Subtropical humid forest

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; DIVERSITY INDEX; DOMINANCE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KHASI HILLS; MAWNAI; SOUTH ASIA;

CITRUS MEDICA; CRYPTOCARYA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; LAURACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RUTACEAE;

EID: 33845688878     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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