Monitoring an Arizona ponderosa pine restoration: Sampling efficiency and multivariate analysis of understory vegetation

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 359-367

  Abella, Scott R ^a   Covington, W Wallace ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Forest; Ground flora; Indicator species analysis; Multi response permutation procedures; Species richness; Species area curves

Indexed keywords

HABITAT RESTORATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 4644316182     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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