β-Diversity of Functional Groups of Woody Plants in a Tropical Dry Forest in Yucatan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  López Martínez, Jorge Omar ^a   Sanaphre Villanueva, Lucía ^a   Dupuy, Juan Manuel ^a   Hernández Stefanoni, José Luis ^a   Meave, Jorge Arturo ^b   Gallardo Cruz, José Alberto ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DIVERSITY; ANEMOCHORY; ARTICLE; AUTOCHORY; BETA DIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; LIANA; NONHUMAN; PLANT AGE; PLANT DISPERSAL; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SHRUB; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TREE; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; VEGETATION; WOODY PLANT; ZOOCHORY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84883767547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073660     Document Type: Article

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