Effects of community structure on the species-area relationship in China's forests

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1117-1123

  Qiao, Xiujuan ^a,b   Tang, Zhiyao ^a   Wang, Shaopeng ^a   Liu, Yining ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA;

EID: 84874200078     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.00050.x     Document Type: Article

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