Relative importance of climate vs local factors in shaping the regional patterns of forest plant richness across northeast China

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-142

  Wang, Xiangping ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Sanders, Nathan J ^b   White, Peter S ^c   Tang, Zhiyao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST COVER; HERB; NATURE RESERVE; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; STAND STRUCTURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 63849168972     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05507.x     Document Type: Article

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