Impact of landscape spatial pattern on liana communities in tropical rainforests at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 340-349

  Arroyo Rodriguez, Victor ^a,b   Toledo Aceves, Tarin ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Ecological threshold; Forest fragmentation; Woody climber

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249087994     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01030.x     Document Type: Article

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