Fine-scale microhabitat heterogeneity in a french guianan forest

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 420-428

  Baraloto, Christopher ^a   Couteron, Pierre ^b  

^a Campus Agronomique   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Canopy gap; Geostatistics; Light availability; Microclimate; Soil moisture; Soil nutrients; Topography

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MICROHABITAT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NUTRIENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UNDERSTORY; VARIOGRAM;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 77955025729     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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