Pollen-vegetation relationships along steep climatic gradients in western Amazonia

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 795-806

  Urrego, Dunia H ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b   Correa Metrio, Alexander ^a   Bush, Mark B ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimatic envelopes; Moss polsters; Pollen calibration; Probability density functions; Vegetation plot data

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BASAL AREA; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HERBARIUM; MONTANE FOREST; MOSS; ORDINATION; POLLEN; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

AMAZONAS [PERU]; PERU;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 80052275292     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01289.x     Document Type: Article

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