Spatial structure of the abiotic environment and its association with sapling community structure and dynamics in a cloud forest

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-318

  Mejía Domínguez, Nancy R ^a   Meave, Jorge A ^a   Díaz Ávalos, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b IIMAS UNAM   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Canopy openness; Conditional simulation; Geostatistics; Litter depth; Soil moisture; Total solar radiation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; MEXICO; SEEDLING; SOIL; SOLAR ENERGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LINEAR MODELS; MEXICO; SEEDLING; SOIL; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84857056639     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-011-0434-5     Document Type: Article

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