Community structure in relation to microtopography in a montane evergreen broadleaved forest in Chebaling National Nature Reserve

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5151-5160

  Ma, Xudong ^a   Zhang, Sujun ^b   Su, Zhiyao ^a   Ou, Yuduan ^a   Liu, Gang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangdong Administrative Center for Non commercial Ecological Forests   (China)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); Chebaling National Nature Reserve; Community structure; Microtopography; Multi response permutation procedures (MRPP)

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIODIVERSITY; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EVERGREEN FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; MONTANE FOREST; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHEBALING NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE; CHINA; GUANGDONG;

ACER; CASTANOPSIS CARLESII; CASTANOPSIS EYREI; LIQUIDAMBAR; LIQUIDAMBAR FORMOSANA; LITHOCARPUS GLABER; NEOLITSEA; STYRACACEAE; STYRAX;

EID: 79952683006     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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