The relationship between local abundance and distribution of rain forest trees across environmental gradients in India

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 700-706

  Davidar, Priya ^a,b   Rajagopal, B ^c   Arjunan, M ^d   Puyravaud, Jean Philippe ^e  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c MALANKARA CATHOLIC COLLEGE   (India)

^d Dr Paul's Engineering College   (India)

^e ECOS   (India)

Author keywords

Climatic gradients; Commonness and rarity; Environmental tolerance; Restricted range species; Tropical rain forest; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATABASE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; RANGE SIZE; RARITY; SEASONALITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOLERANCE; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WESTERN GHATS;

EID: 54249100028     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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