Species composition, similarity and diversity in three successional stages of a seasonally dry tropical forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 200, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 227-247

  Kalacska, M ^a   Sanchez Azofeifa, G A ^a   Calvo Alvarado, J C ^b   Quesada, M ^c   Rivard, B ^a   Janzen, D H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

rea de Conservaci n Guanacaste; Costa Rica; Floristic composition; Forest structure; Holdridge complexity index; Incidence based coverage estimator; Similarity; Species richness; Successional stages; Tropical dry forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPOSITION; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; SATELLITES; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DRY FOREST; LAND USE; SIMILARITY INDEX; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTATION; LAND; SATELLITES; WOOD;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 4544350990     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.07.001     Document Type: Article

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