Topography related spatial distribution of dominant tree species in a tropical seasonal rain forest in China

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1507-1513

  Lan, Guoyu ^a,b,c   Hu, Yuehua ^a   Cao, Min ^a   Zhu, Hua ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA); Principal coordinates of neighbour matrices (PCNM); Spatial distribution pattern; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; DOMINANT SPECIES; EXPLANATORY POWER; PRINCIPAL COORDINATES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION PATTERN; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL; TOTAL VARIATION; TREE DISTRIBUTION; TREE SPECIES; TROPICAL SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICAL TREE; VARIATION PARTITIONING;

FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLES; RAIN; TROPICS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ABUNDANCE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; GULLY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; SAPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CHINA; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; PLANTS; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAPLINGS; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

CHINA;

EID: 80051821709     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.052     Document Type: Article

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