Elevational diversity of terrestrial rainforest herbs: When the whole is less than the sum of its parts

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 407-418

  Willinghöfer, Sandra ^a   Cicuzza, Daniele ^b   Kessler, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diversity; Elevational gradient; Indonesia; Species richness; Sulawesi; Terrestrial herbs; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FERN; HERB; MONOCOTYLEDON; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL FOREST;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; FILICOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA; LYCOPODIOPHYTA;

EID: 84857916960     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9986-z     Document Type: Article

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