Biosocial and bionumerical diversity of variously sized home gardens in Tabasco, Mexico

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-107

  van der Wal, Hans ^a,b   Bongers, Frans ^b  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Rarefaction; Shannon diversity index; Social ecological systems; Species richness; Structure

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; HOME GARDEN; INDEX METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RARE SPECIES; RURAL AREA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TABASCO;

EID: 84873249079     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-012-9526-4     Document Type: Article

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