Relationships between environment and mountain riparian plant communities associated with two rare tertiary-relict tree species, Euptelea pleiospermum (Eupteleaceae) and Cercidiphyllum japonicum (Cercidiphyllaceae)

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 841-852

  Wei, Xin Zeng ^a,b   Jiang, Ming Xi ^a   Huang, Han Dong ^a   Yang, Jing Yuan ^c   Yu, Jie ^c  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Shennongjia National Nature Reserve Administration in Hubei Province   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological constraint; Hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis; Non metric multidimensional scaling (NMS); Plant demography; Riparian forest; Tertiary relict

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOMINANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MONTANE FOREST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RANGE EXPANSION; RARE SPECIES; REGENERATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN FOREST;

CHINA; HUBEI; SHENNONGJIA MOUNTAINS;

CERCIDIPHYLLACEAE; CERCIDIPHYLLUM JAPONICUM; EUPTELEA; EUPTELEACEAE;

EID: 78649880217     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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