Assessing self-organization of plant communities-A thermodynamic approach

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 784-790

  Lin, Hua ^a,b   Cao, Min ^a   Stoy, Paul C ^c   Zhang, Yiping ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial tropical rainforest; Chromolaena odorata; Community ecology; Rubber plantation; Self organization; Thermodynamics; Tropical seasonal rainforest

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; RUBBER; RUBBER PLANTATIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTIFICIAL TROPICAL RAINFOREST; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; SELF-ORGANIZATION; TROPICAL SEASONAL RAINFOREST;

TROPICS;

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DICOTYLEDON; PLANTATION; RAINFOREST; RUBBER; SELF ORGANIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XISHUANGBANNA; YUNNAN;

CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA;

EID: 60649121981     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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