Determinism versus chance in canopy gap herbaceous species assemblages in temperate abies-betula forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1138-1145

  Qin, Xiaowei ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Wang, Dexiang ^a   Liu, Ruiying ^a   Yang, Gaihe ^a   Feng, Yongzhong ^a   Ren, Guangxin ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental variables; Gap partitioning; Herbaceous assemblage; Neutrality

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CANOPY GAPS; CLOSED CANOPIES; COMMUNITY SIMILARITY; DETERMINISTIC RULE; DIFFERENT SIZES; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GAP PARTITIONING; GAP SIZE; HERBACEOUS ASSEMBLAGE; HERBACEOUS PLANTS; HERBACEOUS SPECIES; NEUTRAL MODEL; NEUTRALITY; RANDOM PERMUTATIONS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SELECTIVE HARVESTING; SPECIES ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; LAKES; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CANOPY GAP; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; HARVESTING; HERB; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; LAKES; PLANTS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS; SHAANXI; TAIBAI MOUNTAIN;

ABIES; BETULA;

EID: 79960044432     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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