Disentangling regional and local tree diversity in the Amazon

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-54

  Stropp, Juliana ^a   Ter Steege, Hans ^a   Malhi, Yadvinder ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PARTITIONING; RAINFALL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

AMAZON BASIN; GUYANA SHIELD; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 63849109809     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05811.x     Document Type: Article

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