Detection of seasonal variability in microclimatic borders and ecotones between forest and savanna

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-285

  Hennenberg, Klaus Josef ^a   Goetze, Dethardt ^a   Szarzynski, Jörg ^b   Orthmann, Bettina ^a   Reineking, Björn ^c   Steinke, Ingo ^a   Porembski, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; Boundary; Core area; Depth of edge influence; Forest edge effect; Forest islands; Fragmentation; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949101877     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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