Liana diversity and distribution on host trees in four inland tropical dry evergreen forests of peninsular India

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 109-123

  Reddy, M Sridhar ^a   Parthasarathy, N ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Climbing modes; Distribution pattern; Infestation rate; Lianas; Ordination; Species dominance; Tree morphology; Tropical dry evergreen forest

Indexed keywords

DRY FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; HOST PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VINE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

ALBIZIA; COMBRETUM; COMBRETUM ALBIDUM; GLYCOSMIS PENTAPHYLLA; MANILKARA HEXANDRA; MANILKARA ZAPOTA; MEMECYLON UMBELLATUM;

EID: 35648940700     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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