Spatial Distribution and Interspecific Associations of Tree Species in a Tropical Seasonal Rain Forest of China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Lan, Guoyu ^a,b   Getzin, Stephan ^c   Wiegand, Thorsten ^c   Hu, Yuehua ^a   Xie, Guishui ^b   Zhu, Hua ^a   Cao, Min ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; HERD; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PROGENY; SAPLING; SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TOPOGRAPHY; TREE; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

ECOSYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84866995225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046074     Document Type: Article

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