Species diversity and environmental interpretation in the process of community succession in the Ziwu Mountain of Shaanxi Province

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1638-1647

  Wang, Shixiong ^a   Wang, Xiaoan ^a   Li, Guoqing ^a   Guo, Hua ^a   Zhu, Zhihong ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CCA; Intermediate species richness hypothesis; Light availability; Species diversity; Species replacement; The loess plateau

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; HERB; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT EFFECT; SHRUB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI;

OSTRYOPSIS DAVIDIANA;

EID: 79952688722     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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