Temporal and spatial variation in an Australian tropical rainforest

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-20

  Laidlaw, Melinda ^a   Kitching, Roger ^b   Goodall, Kylie ^b   Small, Andrew ^c   Stork, Nigel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GHD PTY LTD   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cape Tribulation; Cyclone; Floristics; Structure; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLORISTICS; RAINFOREST; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATHERTON TABLELAND; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BAITABAG; CAPE TRIBULATION; EUNGELLA NATIONAL PARK; MADANG; MELANESIA; MOROBE; OOMSIS FOREST; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALUMA RANGE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; QUEENSLAND;

ALSTONIA; ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS; APOCYNACEAE; CLEISTANTHUS; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; LAURACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MELIACEAE; MYRIANTHUS; MYRISTICA INSIPIDA; MYRTACEAE; NORMANBYA NORMANBYI; ROCKINGHAMIA;

EID: 33846534290     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01739.x     Document Type: Article

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