Can the tree species-area relationship be derived from prior knowledge of the tree species richness?

Forestry Studies

Volumn 46, Issue , 2007, Pages 13-22

  Von Gadow, Klaus ^a   Hui, Gang Ying ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contiguous forest; Minimum species areal; Power function; Second derivative; Species area relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349108043     PISSN: 14069954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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