Analysis of forest types and estimates of biomass in the Sierra de La Laguna Reserve, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2059-2068

  de la Luz, José Luis León ^a   Domínguez Cadena, Raymundo ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada Unidad La Paz   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC STRESSORS; CALIFORNIA; CANOPY COVERAGE; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST TYPE; LEAF LITTER; ME-XICO; MODEL SYSTEM; NATURAL FACTORS; QUERCUS; SAMPLED SITES; TREE SPECIES; YOUNG TREES;

ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEAD WOOD; DOMINANCE; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LEAF LITTER; PHYTOMASS; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SUCCESSION;

BIOMASS; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MEXICO; PLANTS; RESERVES; TREE DIMENSIONS;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PENINSULAR RANGES; SIERRA DE LA LAGUNA; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS;

EID: 77958600651     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-121     Document Type: Article

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