Temporal changes in species diversity and composition in abandoned fields in a trans-Himalayan landscape, Nepal

Plant Ecology

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 383-399

  Baniya, Chitra Bahadur ^a,b   Solhøy, Torstein ^a   Vetaas, Ole R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

GLM; Himalaya; Manang; Multivariate analyses; Old field succession; Secondary succession; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIVERGENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURNOVER; VEGETATION COVER;

ASIA; EURASIA; GANDAKI; HIMALAYAS; MANANG; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMALIA; COTONEASTER; JUNIPERUS;

EID: 67349183345     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9473-3     Document Type: Article

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