Tree community change in a tropical dry forest: The role of roads and exotic plant invasion

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-207

  Prasad, Ayesha E ^a,b  

^a NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Community composition; Degradation; Generalized linear model; Lantana camara; Non metric multi dimensional scaling; Tree death

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EDGE EFFECT; EXOTIC PLANTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INCREASING TREES; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; LANTANA CAMARA; LONG-TERM CONSERVATION; NON-METRIC MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; TREE COMMUNITY; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS; TROPICAL MOIST FOREST; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; UNDERSTOREY;

CURING; DEGRADATION; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; ROADS AND STREETS; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; DRY FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LINEARITY; NATIVE SPECIES; PERTURBATION; ROAD; SHRUB; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

CURING; DEGRADATION; FORESTRY; MAINTENANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; WETTING;

LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA;

EID: 77951145070     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892909990257     Document Type: Article

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