The study of microclimate in response to different plant community association in tropical moist deciduous forest from northern India

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1159-1176

  Behera, Soumit K ^a   Mishra, Ashish K ^a   Sahu, Nayan ^a   Kumar, Amrit ^a   Singh, Niraj ^a   Kumar, Anoop ^a   Bajpai, Omesh ^a   Chaudhary, L B ^a   Khare, Prem B ^a   Tuli, Rakesh ^a,b  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NATIONAL AGRI FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Ambient CO 2; Canonical correspondence analysis; Micro climate; PAR; Soil surface temperature; Tropical forest; Weather parameters

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIURNAL VARIATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUMIDITY; MICROCLIMATE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAVANNA; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

INDIA; KATERNIAGHAT WILDLIFE SANCTUARY; UTTAR PRADESH;

TECTONA GRANDIS;

EID: 84862777155     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-012-0230-5     Document Type: Article

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