Tped pattern reveals process: Spatial organisation of a kamchatkan stone birch forest

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-288

  Eichhorn, Markus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Betula ermanii; Boreal forest; Far Eastern Russia; Kamchatka; Mark correlation; Mat rn cluster process; Pair correlation function; Spatial point pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

BETULA; BETULA ERMANII;

EID: 79955554867     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2010.528804     Document Type: Article

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