Diversity of understory plants in undisturbed and disturbed tropical lowland forests of Little Andaman Island, India

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1045-1065

  Rasingam, L ^a   Parthasarathy, N ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman Islands; Disturbance; Invasive species; Species density; Tropical forest; Understory plants

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SOUTH ASIA;

ACANTHACEAE; ANAXAGOREA LUZONENSIS; ASTERACEAE; ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS TENELLA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; MIKANIA; MIKANIA CORDATA; ORCHIDACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 63149157373     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9496-z     Document Type: Article

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