Stability of plant communities along a tropical inselberg ecotone in French Guiana (South America)

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 682-694

  Sarthou, Corinne ^a   Larpin, Denis ^a   Fonty, Émile ^a   Pavoine, Sandrine ^a   Ponge, Jean François ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Diachronic change; Ecological barrier; Ecotone; French Guiana; Inselberg; Low forest; Open rock vegetation; Plant communities

Indexed keywords

CLEARCUTTING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIACHRONISM; ECOTONE; EL NINO; EROSION CONTROL; FLORISTICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INSELBERG; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST; SHRUB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 84755161011     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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