Spatiotemporal patterns and dynamics of species richness and abundance of woody plant functional groups in a tropical forest landscape of Hainan Island, South China

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 547-558

  Zhang, Zhi Dong ^a,b   Zang, Run Guo ^a   Qi, Yao Dong ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Forest landscape types; Functional groups; Hainan Island; Recovery dynamics; Spatial variation; Species diversity; Stem abundance; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; NICHE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT STEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HAINAN;

EID: 43049095384     PISSN: 16729072     EISSN: 17447909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2008.00663.x     Document Type: Article

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