How arboreal are epiphytes? A null model for Benzing's classifications

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 185-191

  Burns, K C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hemispherical asymmetries; Metacommunity; Vascular epiphytes

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIPHYTE; FOREST FLOOR; GUILD; METAPOPULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 79959959897     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2010.503775     Document Type: Article

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