Understory plant species and functional diversity in the degraded wet tropical forests of Kolombangara Island, Solomon Islands

Biological Conservation

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 214-224

  Katovai, Eric ^a,b   Burley, Alana L ^a   Mayfield, Margaret M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Pacific Adventist University   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Functional diversity; Human dominated landscapes; Pacific islands; Solomon archipelago; Tropical plant diversity

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING PRESSURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

KOLOMBANGARA; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

EID: 84856218861     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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