Do disturbance and productivity influence evenness of seedling, sapling and adult tree species across a semi-deciduous tropical forest landscape?

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 623-629

  Larpkern, Panadda ^a   Totland, Ørjan ^a   Moe, Stein R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BAMBOO; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHARCOAL; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SAPLING; SEEDLING; TROPICAL FOREST;

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EID: 79952998401     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18967.x     Document Type: Article

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