Relationship between landscape heterogeneity and plant species richness on the mexican pacific coast

Applied Geography

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-178

  Priego Santander, Ángel Guadalupe ^a   Campos, Minerva ^b   Bocco, Gerardo ^a   Ramírez Sánchez, Luis Giovanni ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation; Landscape heterogeneity; Mexican Pacific coast; Plant species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL ZONE; DIVERSITY INDEX; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN;

EID: 84875785699     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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